The Strategy of Life: Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth-Century German Biology

by Timothy Lenoir

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In the early nineteenth century, a group of German biologists led by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and Karl Friedrich Kielmeyer initiated a search for laws of biological organization that would explain the phenomena of form and function and establish foundations for a unified theory of life. The tradition spawned by these efforts found its most important spokesman in Karl Ernst von Baer. Timothy Lenoir chronicles the hitherto unexplored achievements...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226471837

ISBN13:9780226471839

Release Date:April 1989

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:333 Pages

Weight:1.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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Biological Sciences Biology Biology & Life Sciences Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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