Author: Ernst Mayr
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: world, living, science, biology
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1998-09-15
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0674884698
ISBN-13: 9780674884694

At the age of 93, Ernst Mayr has forgotten more about biology than most people ever learn. Mayr has been more than just an eyewitness to the amazing advances in biological theory and understanding over the century; he was an active participant as well, helping to formulate the combination of Darwinian thought and modern genetics that is the bedrock of today’s standard theory of evolution. But biology has always been something of a poor relation to the other physical sciences--subjects such as physics or chemistry that have strict rules of cause and effect and a certain predictability. Bi

Author: Ernst Mayr
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: evolution
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0465044263
ISBN-13: 9780465044269

Gathering insights from his seven-decade career, the renowned biologist Ernst Mayr argues that evolution is now to be considered not a theory but a fact--and that "there is not a single Why? question in biology that can be answered adequately without a consideration of evolution." Mayr, emeritus professor of zoology at Harvard University, has long been one of the world’s foremost researchers in genetic and evolutionary theory. In this overview of past and current scientific thought, he discusses key concepts and terms, among them the origin of species, the (somewhat metaphorical) "strugg

Author: Ernst Mayr
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: species, evolution, press, belknap, abridgment, populations
Number of Pages: 453
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0674690133
ISBN-13: 9780674690134

Representative of the international acclaim accorded Ernst Mayr’s Animal Species and Evolution, published in 1963, is Sir Julian Huxley’s description of it as "a magistral book... certainly the most important study of evolution that has appeared in many years--perhaps since the publication of The Origin of Species." In his extraordinary book, Mr. Mayr fully explored, synthesized, and evaluated man’s knowledge about the nature of animal species and the part they play in the process of evolution. Now, in this long-awaited abridged edition, Mr. Mayr’s definitive work

Author: Ernst Mayr
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: evolutionist, observations, biology, philosophy, new
Number of Pages: 575
Published: 1989-09-09
List price: $28.50
ISBN-10: 0674896661
ISBN-13: 9780674896666

Author: Ernst Mayr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: scientific, discipline, autonomy, considerations, biology, unique, makes
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2004-08-09
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521841143
ISBN-13: 9780521841146

This collection of revised and new essays argues that biology is an autonomous science rather than a branch of the physical sciences. Ernst Mayr, widely considered the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the 20th century, offers insights on the history of evolutionary thought, critiques the conditions of philosophy to the science of biology, and comments on several of the major developments in evolutionary theory. Notably, Mayr explains that Darwin’s theory of evolution is actually five separate theories, each with its own history, trajectory and impact. Ernst Mayr, commonly referr

Author: Ernst Mayr
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: evolutionary, thought, questions, science, modern, genesis, argument, charles, darwin, one
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1993-03-15
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0674639065
ISBN-13: 9780674639065

Evolutionary theory ranks as one of the most powerful concepts of modern civilization. Its effects on our view of life have been wide and deep. One of the most world-shaking books ever published, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, first appeared in print over 130 years ago, and it touched off a debate that rages to this day. Every modern evolutionist turns to Darwin’s work again and again. Current controversies in the life sciences very often have as their starting point some vagueness in Darwin’s writings or some question Darwin was unable to answer owing to the

Author: Ernst Mayr
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: evolution, inheritance, diversity, thought, biological, growth
Number of Pages: 992
Published: 1985-01-22
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0674364465
ISBN-13: 9780674364462

No one in this century can speak with greater authority on the progress of ideas in biology than Ernst Mayr. And no book has ever established the life sciences so firmly in the mainstream of Western intellectual history as The Growth of Biological Thought. Ten years in preparation, this is a work of epic proportions, tracing the development of the major problems of biology from the earliest attempts to find order in the diversity of life, to modern research into the mechanisms of gene transmission.