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Explores the development of the ideas of evolutionary biology, particularly as affected by the increasing understanding of genetics and of the chemical basis of inheritance.

This book is a collection of essays from the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century. Ernst Mayr explores biology as an autonomous science, the history of evolutionary thought, the contributions of philosophy to the science of biology, and the major ongoing issues in evolutionary theory.

The author argues that the physical sciences cannot address many aspects of nature and that living organisms must be understood at every level of organization. He attempts to map out the territorial overlap between biology and the humanities, especially history and ethics.

What we do and do not know about evolution, by one of the field's pioneering thinkers.

Ernst Mayr's comprehensive work explores the intricate relationship between animal species and evolution, spanning twenty chapters. It begins with foundational concepts in evolutionary biology and culminates in an analysis of humans as a biological species. Mayr addresses unresolved issues and integrates insights from diverse fields like genetics and physiology. He presents a critical evaluation of species concepts, hybridization, genetic variation, and speciation while encouraging constructive debate. The book includes a glossary and an extensive bibliography for further exploration.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 41 st 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. 

During the last few years, we have seen quite spectacular progress in the area of approximation algorithms: for several fundamental optimization problems we now actually know matching upper and lower bounds for their approximability. This textbook-like tutorial is a coherent and essentially self-contained presentation of the enormous recent progress facilitated by the interplay between the theory of probabilistically checkable proofs and aproximation algorithms. The basic concepts, methods, and results are presented in a unified way to provide a smooth introduction for newcomers. These lectures are particularly useful for advanced courses or reading groups on the topic.

Ernst Mayr Das ist Biologie Die Wissenschaft des Lebens Lebewesen lassen sich nicht auf die Gesetze der Physik und Chemie reduzieren; sie müssen auf jeder Stufe ihrer Organisation verstanden werden. Ernst Mayr veranschaulicht, warum der zweifellos bei vielen Fragestellungen sehr erfolgreiche Reduktionismus letztlich nicht hinreichen kann, die natürliche Welt in ihrer immensen Komplexität zu erklären. Die Biologie ist nicht zuletzt eine historische Wissenschaft, und Das ist Biologie? läßt sich auch als eine „Lebensgeschichte“ dieser Disziplin lesen. Der Bogen spannt sich von den Wurzeln der Naturforschung in den Werken des Aristoteles über die Revolution, welche die Biologie durch Darwin erfuhr, bis hin zu den spektakulären Fortschritten durch den breiten Einzug molekularer Ansätze. Ernst Mayrs Buch vermittelt ein faszinierendes Bild von der Bedeutung und vom Reichtum der Biologie. ca. 416 S., geb. DM 49,80/öS 364,-/sFr 46,- ISBN 3-8274-0270-0 Ersch.-Termin: April 1998 STO: Sachbuch „Ein intellektuell meisterhafter Überblick über die großen Fragen in der Biologie, klar und voller Energie.“ James D. Watson Der Autor: Ernst Mayr ist Professor emeritus für Zoologie an der Harvard University. Der 93jährige Wissenschaftler, der in Deutschland geboren und aufgewachsen ist, zählt zu den bedeutendsten Biologen der Welt.