Overview :Ernst Mayr (1904-2005), eminent naturalist-systematist and ornithologist, "- chitect" of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, leading evolutio... Read More
Overview :This study, first published in 1942, helped to revolutionize evolutionary biology by offering a new approach to taxonomic principles, and co... Read More
Overview :This masterly and long-awaited work is a full exposition, synthesis, summation, and critical evaluation of the present state of man's knowle... Read More
Overview :At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general reader, What Evolution Is... Read More
Overview :Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas ... Read More
Overview :The diversity of living forms and the unity of evolutionary processes are the focus of these essays. The collection helps form much of the b... Read More
Overview :Representative of the international acclaim accorded Ernst Mayr's Animal Species and Evolution, published in 1963, is Sir Julian Huxley's de... Read More
Overview :A collection of twenty-eight essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into nine categories: Philosophy, Natural Selection, Adaptation, D... Read More
Overview :Biology was forged into a single, coherent science only within living memory. In this volume the thinkers responsible for the "modern synthe... Read More
Overview :Biology until recently has been the neglected stepchild of science, and many educated people have little grasp of how biology explains the n... Read More
Overview :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 establishe... Read More
Overview :This collection of revised and new essays argues that biology is an autonomous science rather than a branch of the physical sciences. Ernst ... Read More
Overview :Evolutionary theory ranks as one of the most powerful concepts of modern civilization. Its effects on our view of life have been wide and de... Read More
Overview :Additional Contributors Are Verne Grant, John Imbrie, Ernst Mayr, John A. Moore, C. Ladd Prosser, And T. M. Sonneborn. December 28-29, 1955.... Read More