Table of contents for What makes biology unique? : considerations on the autonomy of a scientific discipline / Ernst Mayr.


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Preface: what is there at issue?
Introduction
1. Science and sciences
2. The autonomy of biology
3. Teleology
4. Analysis or reductionism
5. Darwin's influence on modern thought
6. Darwin's five theories of evolution
7. Maturation of Darwinism
8. Selection
9. Kuhn's scientific revolutions
10. Another look at the species problem
11. The origin of man
12. Are we alone in this vast universe?
Glossary.


Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Biology Philosophy, Evolution (Biology) Philosophy