login

This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World

DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library)Published 22 March 1997
Ernst Mayr
Citations398

Abstract

What is the meaning of Life? what is science how does science explain the natural world? how does biology explain the living world? does science advance? how are the life sciences structured? What? questions - the study of biodiversity How? questions - the making of a new individual Why? questions - the evolution of organisms what questions does ecology ask? where do humans fit into evolution? can evolution account for ethics?.

Keywords

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology