The Growth of Biological Thought(English, Paperback, Mayr Ernst)

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The Growth of Biological Thought(English, Paperback, Mayr Ernst) is written by Mayr Ernst and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674364465 (ISBN 10) and 9780674364462 (ISBN 13).

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 established the life sciences so firmly in the mainstream of Western intellectual history as The Growth of Biological Thought. Ten years in preparation, this is a work of epic proportions, tracing the development of the major problems of biology from the earliest attempts to find order in the diversity of life to modern research into the mechanisms of gene transmission.