Toward a New Philosophy of Biology : Observations of an Evolutionist

Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology (Emeritus) Museum of Comparative Zoology Ernst Mayr
Harvard University Press
9780674896666
0-674-89666-1

A collection of twenty-eight essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into nine categories: Philosophy, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Darwin, Diversity, Species, Speciation, Macroevolution, and Historical.

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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."