Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an EvolutionistHarvard University Press, 1988 - 564 pages A collection of twenty-eight essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into nine categories: Philosophy, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Darwin, Diversity, Species, Speciation, Macroevolution, and Historical Perspective.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." |
Contents
PHILOSOPHY | 1 |
DIVERSITY | 7 |
The Multiple Meanings of Teleological | 41 |
38 | 65 |
The Origins of Human Ethics | 75 |
II | 83 |
6 | 93 |
ADAPTATION | 117 |
15 | 259 |
Introduction | 265 |
Museums and Biological Laboratories | 289 |
Problems in the Classification of Birds | 295 |
Introduction | 313 |
The Ontology of the Species Taxon | 335 |
Introduction | 359 |
Evolution of Fish Species Flocks | 383 |
Adaptation and Selection | 133 |
How To Carry Out the Adaptationist Program? | 148 |
Introduction | 161 |
Darwin Intellectual Revolutionary | 168 |
ΙΟ | 185 |
13 | 209 |
Darwin and Natural Selection | 215 |
14 | 222 |
The Concept of Finality in Darwin and after Darwin | 233 |
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