The Growth of Biological Thought

Mayr, E. (1982). The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance. Belknap Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1982

Link

https://archive.org/details/growthofbiologic00mayrmatched

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Primes

• Hierarchical Decomposability
  • The pattern recurs without designer intent, a substrate-furthest case Mayr (1982) explicitly identifies in his treatment of hierarchical levels in biological organization.

    This sourceTreats hierarchical levels of biological organization (molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organism, population, species) as one of the distinguishing characteristics of living systems and one of the structural features that demarcates biology from the physical sciences.

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