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Ornithology, Evolution, and Philosophy

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-3-540-71779-9

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This book is the first detailed biography of Ernst Mayr. He was an ‘architect’ of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, and the greatest evolutionary biologist since Charles Darwin, influential historian and philosopher of biology, outstanding taxonomist and ornithologist, and naturalist. He is one of the most widely known biologists of the 20th century.


Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Biography, Charles Darwin, Darwin, Ernst Mayr, Evolution, Ornithology, Taxonomy, biology, evolutionary biology, genetics, natural selection, theory of evolution