<p>This masterly and long-awaited work is a full exposition, synthesis, summation, and critical evaluation of the present state of manβs knowledge about the nature of animal species and of the part they play in the processes of evolution. In a series of twenty chapters, Ernst Mayr presents a consecu
Animal Species and Evolution
β Scribed by Ernst Mayr
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 1963
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 824
- Category
- Library
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