Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 17 September 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5435, pp. 1856 - 1857
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5435.1856
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Books

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE:
Structure for Theories of Biology

A review by Ernst Mayr

Sex and Death An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
Kim Sterelny and Paul E. Griffiths
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999. 456 pp. $60, £47.95. ISBN 0-226-77303-5. Paper, $22, £17.50. ISBN 0-226-77304-3.

Sterelny and Griffiths provide broad ranging and clearly written survey of contemporary issues in the philosophy of biology ranging from the nature of genes, organisms, and species to macroevolution, human nature, and what constitutes life.
The author is at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. E-mail: emayr{at}oeb.harvard.edu

Read the Full Text

To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)