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

by Timothy Lenoir

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"