Toward a New Philosophy of Biology

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Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist (published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1988) is a book by Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr.

A collection of 28 essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into ten categories -- Philosophy, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Darwin, Diversity, Species, Speciation, Macroevolution, and Historial Perspective -- the book, Mayr notes in the Forward, 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."

Reviews

  • Ayala, Francisco J. Science, New Series, Vol. 240, No. 4860 (June, 1988).
  • Griesemer, James R. The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 64, No. 1 (March, 1989).
  • Maienschein, Jane. Isis, Vol. 80, No. 3 (September, 1989).
  • Smith, John Maynard. New York Review of Books, Volume 39, Number 9, May 14, 1992.


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