Metaphysics and the Origin of Species

This sweeping discussion of the philosophy of evolutionary biology is based on the revolutionary idea that species are not kinds of organisms but wholes composed of organisms.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Michael T. Ghiselin is the author of Intellectual Compromise, The Economy of Nature and the Evolution of Sex, and The Triumph of the Darwinian Method. A Senior Research Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences, he is the recipient of a 1981 MacArthur Prize and was awarded the 1970 Pfizer Prize by the History of Science Society.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael T Ghiselin, Michael T. Ghiselin
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 17.07.1997
• EAN: 9780791434673
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3467-3
• Seiten: 377
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 680 g
• Serien: Suny Series, Philosophy & Biol; Suny Series, Philosophy & Biol; Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke