How Does Biology Explain the Living World?

摘要

"I wanted to write a 'life history' of biology that would introduce the reader to the importance and richness of biology as a whole," writes Mayr in his new book. Excerpted from This is Biology: The Science of the Living World, by Ernst Mayr, Harvard University Press. Copyright 1997, by Ernst Mayr. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.