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$35. biology Mayr, one of the principal architects of the modern evolutionary synthesis, has been a protagonist and astute observer in evolutionary discussions for over 50 years. This series of essays is organized topically under such headings as natural selection, adaptation, Darwin and Darwinism, taxonomic diversity, speciation, macroevolution, and philosophy of science as it is affected by evolutionary thought. The book's organization is reminiscent of similar compilations by Stephen Jay Gould (e.g., The Flamingo's Smile , LJ 9/15/86), but most of these essays require more sophistication from the reader. The book is vintage Mayrshowing him, as ever, a cogent, critical, and remarkably well-read biologist, historian, and philosopher. For informed readers and scholars. Margery C. Coombs, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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It is a pleasure to be in the company of a mind so vibrant and still exploring the boundary between the circle of what is known and the vast expanse of what isn't.
--Lee Dembart (Los Angeles Times )
Mayr's power to discern biological connections and also to identify the telling example should excite unqualified admiration...Toward a New Philosophy of Biology is a book to be developed, to be argued with, a book whose margins should be filled with exciting scribblings.
--Philip Kitcher (Nature )
Mayr is the greatest living commentator on biology; and if biology is what you do, as a researcher, teacher, writer, or as amateur, then this is a book you should own.
--Colin Tudge (New Scientist )
Ernst Mayr is one of a handful of the greatest scientific minds humankind has yet produced...This beautifully presented collection of twenty-eight articles and essays, elegantly introduced and filled with important neologisms all contributing to clarity, is so close to competing with Darwin's Origin of Species that I would not be surprised if history were to judge that Evolutionism in our century also has a Prophet...In short, this is one great classic.
--Dick Duman (Bloomsbury Review )
Never too far below the surface of Mayr the philosopher or historian lies Mayr the combative scientific streetfighter. It is in this capacity that he has been most creative, informative, and downright entertaining throughout his career; and this book is no exception...If you are at all interested in evolution--as a historian, a philosopher, or, above all, as a practicing biologist--you really should read this book.
--Niles Eldredge (BioScience )
--Lee Dembart (Los Angeles Times )
Mayr's power to discern biological connections and also to identify the telling example should excite unqualified admiration...Toward a New Philosophy of Biology is a book to be developed, to be argued with, a book whose margins should be filled with exciting scribblings.
--Philip Kitcher (Nature )
Mayr is the greatest living commentator on biology; and if biology is what you do, as a researcher, teacher, writer, or as amateur, then this is a book you should own.
--Colin Tudge (New Scientist )
Ernst Mayr is one of a handful of the greatest scientific minds humankind has yet produced...This beautifully presented collection of twenty-eight articles and essays, elegantly introduced and filled with important neologisms all contributing to clarity, is so close to competing with Darwin's Origin of Species that I would not be surprised if history were to judge that Evolutionism in our century also has a Prophet...In short, this is one great classic.
--Dick Duman (Bloomsbury Review )
Never too far below the surface of Mayr the philosopher or historian lies Mayr the combative scientific streetfighter. It is in this capacity that he has been most creative, informative, and downright entertaining throughout his career; and this book is no exception...If you are at all interested in evolution--as a historian, a philosopher, or, above all, as a practicing biologist--you really should read this book.
--Niles Eldredge (BioScience )
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One of the best books on the philosophy of biolgy,
This review is from: Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist (Paperback)
I have found this to be one of the best treatments of biology, philosophy, evolution, and other related issues that is available. Perhaps this is so because it was not written by a computational biologist, but rather by a "real" biologist, and one who has seen everything since the NeoDarwinian synthesis that he contributed to. I strongly recommend this book to everyone with more than a passing interest in biology.
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epistatic balances, autapomorph characters, speciational evolution, gradual phyletic evolution, term teleonomic, chromosomal restructuring, variational evolution, intralacustrine speciation, peripatric speciation, fish species flocks, inclusive fitness altruism, stasipatric speciation, morabine grasshoppers, saltational origin, teleonomic behavior, somatic programs, teleonomic processes, explain macroevolution, mathematical population geneticists, genetic milieu, germinal selection, phyletic speciation, typological species concept, isolated founder populations, avian classification Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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epistatic balances, autapomorph characters, speciational evolution, gradual phyletic evolution, term teleonomic, chromosomal restructuring, variational evolution, intralacustrine speciation, peripatric speciation, fish species flocks, inclusive fitness altruism, stasipatric speciation, morabine grasshoppers, saltational origin, teleonomic behavior, somatic programs, teleonomic processes, explain macroevolution, mathematical population geneticists, genetic milieu, germinal selection, phyletic speciation, typological species concept, isolated founder populations, avian classification Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Harvard University Press, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, Charles Darwin, Maynard Smith, John Murray, San Francisco, New Guinea, Lake Victoria, The Growth of Biological Thought, Princeton University Press, The Multiple Meanings of Teleological, University of Chicago Press, The Concept of Finality, New Haven, The Ontology of the Species Taxon, Lake Malawi, South American, Charles Lyell, Does Microevolution Explain Macroevolution, Intellectual Revolutionary, North America, Sewall Wright, United States New!
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