books by Ernst Mayr

books by Ernst Mayr

books:

Ernst Mayr

Populations, Species, and Evolution: An Abridgment of Animal Species and Evolution (Belknap Press)

Ernst Mayr

Belknap Press, 1970

Absolutely Wonderful Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
I cannot praise this book highly enough. It is slightly outdated, of course, since it was originally published in 1970. For example, you should ignore the entire last chapter (on human evolutionary history), and Mayr is incorrect about the evolutionary history of human ...

Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist

Ernst Mayr

Harvard University Press, 1989

One of the best books on the philosophy of biolgy
I have found this to be one of the best treatments of biology, philosophy, evolution, and other related issues that is available. Perhaps this is so because it was not written by a computational biologist, but rather by a "real" biologist, and one who has seen ...

The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Ernst Mayr

Belknap Press, 1985

A Comprehensive and Fascinating Journey
Ernst Mayr's comprehensive history of biological thought is nothing less than the story of man's discovery of his own place in nature. Mayr goes back centuries in this fascinating detective story of man's attempt to make sense of all the similarities and all the ...

The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, With a New Preface
Ernst Mayr

Harvard University Press, 1998

Biology was forged into a single, coherent science only within living memory. In this volume the thinkers responsible for the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology and genetics come together to analyze that remarkable event. In a new Preface, Ernst Mayr calls attention to the fact that scientists in different biological disciplines varied ...

One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought (Questions of Science)

Ernst Mayr

Harvard University Press, 2007

You must understand the title to not be disappointed
The title "One Long Arguement", it is a reference to part of Darwin's introductory description to The Origin of Species (appearing within Origin itself). This book is not about arguing with Creationists (Thank God ;). I suspect the above reviewers were misled to the ...

What Evolution Is

Ernst Mayr

Basic Books, 2002

Enjoyable and thought provoking
This book is something I imagine I will have to read again, not because it is poorly written, but because it is so thought provoking and accessible. Having read most of Dawkins works, this book is better. Mayr takes a strong stance against reductionism and the ...

This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World

Ernst Mayr

Belknap Press, 1998

A difficult book
The title is misleading. If you expect Biology 101 you're going to be disappointed. Mayr assumes a great deal about the educational level of his readers, so perhaps the book should should carry a subtitled warning to the unwary. My sound bite description of the ...

What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline (Law in Context S.)

Ernst Mayr

Cambridge University Press, 2007

The deep mojo of Biology
This was a book that finally answered my wife's questions. She is a theologian (main stream, liberal. Evolution is OK) and deals with science and religion frequently. She kept asking me of my biochemical research "is it predictive?". What she was asking was from my ...

Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist

Ernst Mayr

Harvard University Press, 1999

Still and always a key reference
This book belongs on every serious biologist's bookshelf -when it isn't on your desk, in your easy chair, in the clutches of your students, etc. Not as "easy a read" as Mayr's more "popular" books like the wonderful ONE LONG ARGUMENT, this was and is a definitive ...

Birds: A Guide to the Most Familiar American Birds: 125 Birds in Full Color: A Golden Nature Guide (1960 ...
Herbert S. Zim, Ira N. Gabrielson

Golden Press, 1960

The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography
Ernst Mayr, Jared Diamond

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The Birds of Northern Melanesia provides by far the most comprehensive study yet ...

Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays

Ernst Mayr

Belknap Press, 1997

For Serious Biologists
While many people would find this book a tedious read. Anyone interested in the study of ecology, evolution or taxonomy could not help to find something useful. It is arranged as a series off essays, grouped by topic. This enables the reader to proceed at his or her ...