The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance
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Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1983).
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.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780674364462
- Genre
- Topics
- History of evolutionary biologyGenetics and inheritanceDevelopment of scientific thought
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1983)
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