No one in this century can speak with greater authority on the progress of ideas in biology than Ernst Mayr. And no book has ever established the life sciences so firmly in the mainstream of Western intellectual history as "The Growth of Biological Thought." Ten years in preparation, this is a work of epic proportions, tracing the development of the major problems of biology from the earliest attempts to find order in the diversity of life, to modern research into the mechanisms of gene transmission.
- ISBN10 0674364457
- ISBN13 9780674364455
- Publish Date 17 May 1982
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 May 1992
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 896
- Language English