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ISBN: | 9780195348552 0195348559 9780195151787 019515178X 9780195151794 0195151798 1280703997 9781280703997 019515178X 0195151798
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Philip Kitcher is one of the leading figures in the philosophy of science today. Here he collects, for the first time, many of his published articles on the philosophy of biology, spanning from the mid-1980's to the present. The book's title refers to Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk who was one of the first scientists to develop a theory of heredity. Mendel's work has been deeply influential to our understanding of our selves and our world, just as the study of genetics today will have a profound and long-term impact on future scientific research. Kitcher's articles cover a broad range of t.
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Other form: | Print version: Kitcher, Philip, 1947- In Mendel's mirror. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
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