It is a pleasure to be in the company of a mind so vibrant and still exploring the boundary between the circle of what is known and the vast expanse of what isn't.
   --Lee Dembart, Los Angeles Times

Mayr's power to discern biological connections and also to identify the telling example should excite unqualified admiration...Toward a New Philosophy of Biology is a book to be developed, to be argued with, a book whose margins should be filled with exciting scribblings.
   --Philip Kitcher, Nature

Mayr is the greatest living commentator on biology; and if biology is what you do, as a researcher, teacher, writer, or as amateur, then this is a book you should own.
   --Colin Tudge, New Scientist

Ernst Mayr is one of a handful of the greatest scientific minds humankind has yet produced...This beautifully presented collection of twenty-eight articles and essays, elegantly introduced and filled with important neologisms all contributing to clarity, is so close to competing with Darwin's Origin of Species that I would not be surprised if history were to judge that Evolutionism in our century also has a Prophet...In short, this is one great classic.
   --Dick Duman, Bloomsbury Review

Never too far below the surface of Mayr the philosopher or historian lies Mayr the combative scientific streetfighter. It is in this capacity that he has been most creative, informative, and downright entertaining throughout his career; and this book is no exception...If you are at all interested in evolution--as a historian, a philosopher, or, above all, as a practicing biologist--you really should read this book.
   --Niles Eldredge, BioScience

Ernst Mayr is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is also the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards, including the Crafoord Prize for Biology, the National Medal of Science, the Balzan Prize, and the Japan Prize.

Read More by Ernst Mayr:

• Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays
• This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World
• The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance
• One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought
• Populations, Species, and Evolution, An Abridgment of <i>Animal Species and Evolution</i>
• The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, With a New Preface
• Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist
• Animal Species and Evolution