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Ernst Mayr (1904–2005)

Author of What Evolution Is

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About the Author

Ernst Mayr is Professor Emeritus in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University

Includes the names: E Mayr, Ernst Mayr, Ernst Mayr, Ernest Mayr

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Works by Ernst Mayr

What Evolution Is (2001) 743 copies
The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance (1982) 312 copies
This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World (1997) 233 copies
One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought (1991) 194 copies
Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist (1988) 148 copies
What Makes Biology Unique? Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline (2004) 119 copies
Populations, Species, and Evolution: An Abridgment of Animal Species and Evolution (1970) 93 copies
Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist (1942) 89 copies
Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays (1719) 83 copies
Animal Species and Evolution (1963) 57 copies
Principles of Systematic Zoology (1969) 51 copies
The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology (1980) 37 copies
Birds of the Southwest Pacific (1945) 25 copies
The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography (2001) 20 copies
Methods and principles of systematic zoology (1953) 18 copies
Captando Genomas (Spanish Edition) (2003) 7 copies
Species taxa of North American birds; a contribution to comparative systematics (1970) 5 copies
Así es la biología (2016) 5 copies
Una larga controversia: Darwin y el darwinismo (1992) 5 copies
Biologia ed evoluzione (1982) 5 copies
Evolucion Libros De Investigacion Y Ciencia (1979) 4 copies
List of New Guinea Birds (1941) 4 copies
Histoire de la biologie : Diversité, évolution et hérédité, tome 2 : De Darwin à nos jours (1995) 4 copies
The Species Problem (1957) 4 copies
Evrim Nedir? (2016) 3 copies
Eine neue Philosophie der Biologie (1991) 3 copies
Evolution. Die Entwicklung von den ersten Lebensspuren bis zum Menschen (1982) 3 copies
Bioloogilise mõtte areng : mitmekesisus, evolutsioon ja pärilikkus (2017) 3 copies
Artbegriff und Evolution 2 copies
Check-List of Birds of the World, Volume XI : A continuation of the work of James L. Peters (1986) 2 copies
L'evoluzione delle specie animali, 1 2 copies
L'evoluzione delle specie animali, 2 2 copies
The birds of Timor and Sumba 2 copies
Scientific explanation and conceptual framework 1 copy
O DESENVOLVIMENTO DO PENSAMENTO BIOLÓGICO 1 copy
Toward a New Philosophy of Biology 1 copy
One Long Argument 1 copy
Biyolojiyi Benzersiz Kılan Nedir?;Bilimsel Bir Disiplinin Özerkliği Üzerine Düşünceler (2022) 1 copy
Sistematik Zoolojinin Prensipleri 1 copy
Ornithologie als biologische Wissenschaft : 28 Beiträge als Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Erwin Stresemann 1 copy
Evolutionary challenges to the mathematical interpretation of evolution 1 copy
How Does Biology Explain the Living World? 1 copy
O QUE É EVOLUÇÃO 1 copy
Introduction: The role of systematics in biology 1 copy
Accident or design, the paradox of evolution 1 copy
Evolutionary Synthesis 1 copy
BIOLOGIA , CIÊNCIA ÚNICA 1 copy
Darwin and the evolutionary theory in biology 1 copy
Illiger and the biological species concept 1 copy
Evolution and behaviour 1 copy
The evolutionary significance of the systematic categories 1 copy
Discussion footnotes on the philosophy of biology 1 copy
Cladistic analysis or cladistic classification? 1 copy
Biyoloji Budur (2017) 1 copy
The Species Problem: a Symposium Presented at the Atlanta Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of… 1 copy
CHECK-LIST OF BIRDS OF THE WORLD: A CONTINUATION OF THE WORK OF JAMES L. PETERS: VOLUME XV. (1962) 1 copy
The birds of the 1933-1934 Papuan Expedition 1 copy
Ornithologie als biologische Wissenschaft : 28 Beiträge als Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Erwin Stresemann (22 1 copy
Histoire de la biologie, diversité, évolution, hérédité, tome 1 : Des origines à Darwin (1995) 1 copy
What is a Species and What Is Not? 1 copy
Storia del pensiero biologico : diversita, evoluzione, eredita 1 copy
Evolution 1 copy
Die Hauptbücherei Wien / The Main City Library Vienna: Ein Bau von Ernst Mayr / A Building by Ernst Mayr (German… (2004) 1 copy
Check List of Birds of the World Volume 1 : Second edition Revision of the work of James L. Peters (1960) 1 copy
L'Évolution (Bibliothèque Pour la science) (1979) 1 copy
Check-List of Birds of the World, 1979, Vol. 1: Revision of the Work of James L. Peters (Classic Reprint) (2018) 1 copy
Filozofija evolucije 1 copy
Methods and principles of systematic zoology 1 copy
Il modello biologico (1998) 1 copy
L'evoluzione delle specie animali. Volumi I e II. (1970) 1 copy
Speciational Evolution or Punctuated Equilibria 1 copy
Results of the Archbold Expeditions. 14 Birds of the 1933-1934 Papuan Expedition (1937) 1 copy
Birds of paradise 1 copy
CHECK-LIST OF BIRDS OF THE WORLD: A CONTINUATION OF THE WORK OF JAMES L. PETERS: VOLUME IX. (1960) 1 copy
Speciation and systematics 1 copy
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Associated Works

On the Origin of Species (1859) — Introduction, some editions — 14,446 copies
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (2008) — Contributor — 803 copies
Darwin (Norton Critical Edition) (1970) — Contributor — 659 copies
Acquiring Genomes: The Theory of the Origins of the Species (2002) — Foreword, some editions — 184 copies
The Best American Science Writing 2001 (2001) — Contributor — 133 copies

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laplantelibrary | Jul 9, 2022 |
This is Biology by Ernst Mayr
The science of the living world
 
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jhawn | 2 other reviews | Jul 31, 2017 |
What Makes Biology Unique? Considerations on the… by Ernst Mayr
This book is actually an assemble of ideas from the author published in journals, books, etc. It describes how biology must be seen as an autonomous science (in light of evolution) like physics and chemistry. It brings some controversial ideas on that matter and also on other subjects such as extraterrestrial life and the evolution of the biological science. This is definitely a must read for biologists and scientists as a whole.
 
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elviomedeiros | 2 other reviews | Dec 5, 2012 |
This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World by Ernst Mayr
I thought this was a very good introduction to the foundations of biology, explaining such things as proximate and ultimate causation, or whether in science (especially biology) advances, the role of the different subdisciplines, etc.
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However, the last two chapters did not really fit in, as they were not about the foundations, but biology proper, specifically the evolution of the human being. Interesting enough, but they belong in a different book.
 
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