What we do and do not know about evolution, by one of the field's pioneering thinkers.Evolution is the most important idea in biology, with implications that go far beyond science. But despite more than a century's progress in understanding, there is still widespread confusion about what evolution is, how it works and why it is the only plausible mechanism that can account for the remarkable diversity of life on Earth.Now, for the first time in a book aimed...

En Así es la biología , Ernst Mayr, el biólogo evolucionista más importante del siglo XX, reunió sus 90 años de conocimiento de la disciplina y de experiencia docente, para hacer del recorrido de la evolución una apasionante historia de descubrimientos.Un clásico científico imprescindible.Ernst Mayr fue uno de los biólogos más importantes del siglo XX. En esta obra fundamental, se plantea varias p...

At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general reader, What Evolution Is poses the questions at the heart of evolutionary theory and considers how our improved understanding of evolution has affected the viewpoints and values of modern man. Science Masters Series

Biology until recently has been the neglected stepchild of science, and many educated people have little grasp of how biology explains the natural world. Yet to address the major political and moral questions that face us today, we must acquire an understanding of their biological roots. This magisterial new book by Ernst Mayr will go far to remedy this situation. An eyewitness to this century's relentless biological advance and the creator of some of its most important concepts, Mayr is u...

Evolutionary theory ranks as one of the most powerful concepts of modern civilization. Its effects on our view of life have been wide and deep. One of the most world-shaking books ever published, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, first appeared in print over 130 years ago, and it touched off a debate that rages to this day.Every modern evolutionist turns to Darwin’s work again and again. Current controversies in the life sciences very often have as their starting ...

At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegantprimer on evolution for the general reader, What Evolution Is poses the questions atthe heart of evolutionary theory and considers how our improved understanding ofevolution has affected the viewpoints and values of modern man

«Il succo della spiegazione evoluzionistica condensato in due testi di rara chiarezza, scritti da due maestri che hanno attraversato quasi per intero il Novecento: qui risiede il valore unico e prezioso del volume che avete fra le mani»: così Telmo Pievani introduce queste due voci tratte dall'Enciclopedia del Novecento, passando poi a ricostruire le storie personali parallele ed esemplari di due "big" della biologia: Ernst Mayr, naturalista tedesco che ad Harvard tracciò per decenni i con...

Perfect for birdwatching enthusiasts travelling to Indonesia, this concise guide is full of interesting information.This practical handbook, by an acknowledged authority, intended primarily for the field student, tells him how to identify and name the birds of Indonesia which he encounters, and what kinds of birds he can expect to find on each island. There is also a condensed summary of the present knowledge of distribution, geographical variation and habits. When...

Ein humoristischer Musikanten-Roman. Die Serie "Meisterwerke der Literatur" beinhaltet die Klassiker der deutschen und weltweiten Literatur in einer Sammlung.

It is now generally recognized that the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 not only decisively altered the basic concepts of biological theory but had a profound and lasting influence on social, philosophic, and religious thought. This work is rightly regarded as one of the most important books ever printed.The first edition had a freshness and uncompromising directness that were considerably weakened in subsequent editions. Nearly all reprints were based on...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 41st International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2015, held in Garching, Germany, in June 2015.The 32 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: invited talks; computational complexity; design and analysis; computational geometry; structural graph theory; graph drawing; and fixed parameter tractability.