Ernst Mayr

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What Evolution Is
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What Evolution Is
  • By: Ernst Mayr
  • Narrator: Ernst Mayr
  • Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: February 08, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (3536 ratings)
(3536 ratings)
At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general reader, What Evolution Is poses the questions at the heart of evolutionary theory and considers how our improved understanding of ... Read more

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