| Main Title |
The growth of biological thought : diversity, evolution, and inheritance / |
| Author |
Mayr, Ernst,
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| Publisher |
Belknap Press, |
| Year Published |
1982 |
| Report Number |
81013204 |
| OCLC Number |
07875904 |
| ISBN |
0674364457; 9780674364455; 0674364465; 9780674364462 |
| Subjects |
Biology--History ;
Biology--Philosophy--History ;
Biological Evolution ;
Genetics ;
Biologie ;
Evolutietheorie ;
Filosofie ;
Geschichte ;
Biologie--Histoire ;
Biologie--Philosophie--Histoire ;
Biologie--Histoire--ram ;
Biologie--Philosophie--Histoire--ram
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EJBM |
QH305.M26 1982 |
|
Headquarters Library/Washington,DC |
12/03/2004 |
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| Collation |
ix, 974 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p. 893-955. Includes index. |
| Contents Notes |
Introduction : how to write history of biology -- The place of biology in the sciences and its conceptual structure -- The changing intellectual milieu of biology. Diversity of life. Macrotaxonomy, the science of classifying -- Grouping according to common ancestry -- Microtaxonomy, the science of species. Evolution. Origins without evolution -- Evolution before Darwin -- Charles Darwin -- Darwin's evidence for evolution and common descent -- The causation of evolution : natural selection -- Diversity and synthesis of evolutionary thought -- Post-synthesis developments. Variation and its inheritance. Early theories and breeding experiments -- Germ cells, vehicles of heredity -- The nature of inheritance -- The flowering of Mendelian genetics -- Theories of the gene -- The chemical basis of inheritance. Epilogue : toward a science of science. Explores the development of the ideas of evolutionary biology, particularly as affected by the increasing understanding of genetics and of the chemical basis of inheritance. |
| Place Published |
Cambridge, Mass. : |
| PUB Date Free Form |
1982. |
| BIB Level |
m |
| Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
| LCCN |
81013204 |
| Merged OCLC records |
9920181; 59829882 |
| OCLC Time Stamp |
20041129090620 |
| Language |
eng |
| Origin |
OCLC |
| Type |
CAT |
| OCLC Rec Leader |
01137cam 2200385 a 45020 |
