Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist

by Ernst W. Mayr

Book Overview

A collection of twenty-eight essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into nine categories: Philosophy, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Darwin, Diversity, Species, Speciation, Macroevolution, and Historical Perspective. The book, Ernst Mayr notes in the Foreword, is an attempt "to strengthen the bridge between biology and philosophy, and point to the new direction in which a new philosophy of biology will move."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674896661
• ISBN13: 9780674896666
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 575 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

One of the best books on the philosophy of biolgy

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.