This is Biology: Science of the Living World by Ernst Mayr
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This is Biology
Summary
The author argues that the physical sciences cannot address many aspects of nature and that living organisms must be understood at every level of organization. He attempts to map out the territorial overlap between biology and the humanities, especially history and ethics.
This is Biology Summary
Table of Contents
What is the meaning of Life?; what is science; how does science explain the natural world?; how does biology explain the living world? does science advance? how are the life sciences structured?; What? questions - the study of biodiversity;How? questions - the making of a new individual; Why? questions - the evolution of organisms; what questions does ecology ask?; where do humans fit into evolution?; can evolution account for ethics?.
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GOR003284807
9780674884687
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This is Biology: Science of the Living World by Ernst Mayr
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Harvard University Press
19981201
340
Short-listed for Rhone Poulenc General Prize for Science Books 1998 Short-listed for Rhone-Poulenc Science Books Prize 1998
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