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What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline

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What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline

by Ernst Mayr

About this title: This book, a collection of essays written by the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century, explores biology as an autonomous science, offers insights on the history of evolutionary thought, critiques the contributions of philosophy to the science of biology, and comments on several of the major ongoing issues in evolutionary theory. Notably, Mayr explains that Darwin's theory of evolution is actually five separate theories, each with its own history, trajectory and impact. Natural selection is a separate idea from common descent, and from geographic speciation, and so on. ... read more

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May 12, 2009
By Larry, Canada

"Mayr was the one of foremost scholars of evolutionary biology since Darwin. In this collection of essays, published just months before his death at the age of 100, Mayr discusses why Biology is a science different from all others, and why Darwin's Theory of Evolution by means of Natural Selection is actually 5 theories that can be independently tested. It is this observation that goes a long way to understanding the difficulties in the acceptance of Darwin's work.

Mayr was a scientist of great intellect and equally great ego (deservedly), well known for his statement "I'm not dogmatic; I'm simply right." This aspect of Mayr comes out throughout this well reasoned, well researched and well notated masterpiece."

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Jun 6, 2008
By eric, dresden, Germany

"this book actually consists of a mix of previous and new essays by the evolutionary biologist and philosopher of science ernst mayr. it is a fairly technical treatise describing, among other things, why biology cannot be analyzed according the reductionist principles that have guided the physical sciences. as such, i wouldn't necessarily recommend it to the non-scientist.

on the other hand if the physical or biological scientist reader can forgive the elder statesman some philosophical grumpiness that likely stems from having long lasting arguments with people he considers not so bright (scientists and others), then the essays serve as technical summary of darwin's work which actually consists of five independent ideas: evolution as such, common descent, multiplication of species, gradualism and natural selection. there are also some historical chapters on how these ideas were finally accepted and how they have impacted modern thinking.

in summary, this book is full of interesting ideas as well as some technical details that should surprise even those fairly well versed in evolutionary theory."

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