Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist
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ISBN: 0674896661 / Publisher: Harvard University Press, September 1989
Provides a philosophical analysis of such biological concepts as natural selection, adaptation, speciation, and evolution
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A collection of twenty-eight essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into nine categories: Philosophy, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Darwin, Diversity, Species, Speciation, Macroevolution, and Historical Perspective.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.”
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