What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)

Mayr, Ernst

ISBN 10: 0465044263 / ISBN 13: 9780465044269

Published by Basic Books, 2002

About this Item

A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (However the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but the notes cannot obscure the text. Book may be a price cutter or have a remainder mark.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465044263
• ISBN 13: 9780465044269
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

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

About the Author

Ernst Mayr was the leading evolutionary biologist of the 20th century. He was Professor Emeritus at the Zoology Department of Harvard University and for twenty-three years served as Curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He died in February 2005 in Massachusetts.