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  1. Philosophy of biological science.David L. Hull - 1974 - Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall.
    Compares classic and contemporary theories of genetics and evolution and explores the role of teleological thought in biology.
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  • The Theory of Island Biogeography.Robert H. Macarthur & Edward O. Wilson - 2002 - Journal of the History of Biology 35 (1):178-179.
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  • (2 other versions)Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science.Richard Bevan Braithwaite - 1953 - Cambridge [Eng.]: University Press.
    Each science proceeds by inventing general principles from which are deduced the consequences to be tested by observation and experiment; the author shows how the implications of this process explain some of its more baffling features and resolves many of the difficulties that philosophers have found in them.
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  • The fertility of theory and the unit for appraisal in science.Ernan McMullin - 1976 - In R. S. Cohen, P. K. Feyerabend & M. Wartofsky (eds.), Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos. Reidel. pp. 395--432.
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  • Perspectives in Ecological Theory.R. MARGALEF - 1968
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  • (1 other version)What philosophy of biology is not.David L. Hull - 1969 - Synthese 20 (2):157 - 184.
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  • A succession of paradigms in ecology: Essentialism to materialism and probabilism.Daniel Simberloff - 1980 - Synthese 43 (1):3 - 39.
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  • (1 other version)What philosophy of biology is not.David Hull - 1969 - Journal of the History of Biology 2 (1):241-268.
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  • Studies of animal populations from Lamarck to Darwin.Frank N. Egerton - 1968 - Journal of the History of Biology 1 (2):225-259.
    Darwin's theory of evolution brought to an end the static view of nature. It was no longer possible to think of species as immortal, with secure places in nature. Fluctuation of population could no longer be thought of as occurring within definite limits which had been set at the time of creation. Nor was it any longer possible to generalize from the differential reproductive potentials, or from a few cases of mutualism between species, that everything in nature was “fitted to (...)
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  • Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science.Richard Bevan Braithwaite - 1953 - Cambridge,: Cambridge University Press.
    The primary purpose of this book is to examine the logical features common to all the sciences. Each science proceeds by inventing general principles from which are deduced the consequences to be tested by observation and experiment; the author shows how the implications of this process explain some of its more baffling features and resolves many of the difficulties that philosophers have found in them. His exposition is by way of detailed examples.
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  • Victor Hensen and the development of sampling methods in ecology.John Lussenhop - 1974 - Journal of the History of Biology 7 (2):319-337.
    Why was Hensen unsuccesful in the quantification of ecological sampling? No aspect of plankton research itself seems to have hindered quantification; both collecting methods and taxonomy were sufficiently advanced. The reason is probably that at the time he began sampling, Hensen had to devise his own statistical methods for expressing the reproducibility and validity of samples. Hensen might have succeeded in this if he had overcome prevalent nineteenth-century attitudes toward randomness.The statistical literature of medicine and physics with which Hensen was (...)
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  • A Bibliographical Guide to the History of General Ecology and Population Ecology.Frank N. Egerton - 1977 - History of Science 15 (3):189-215.
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  • (1 other version)Plankton-Studien.Ernst Haeckel - 1890 - The Monist 1:455.
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  • Theoretical biology: A statement and defense.Martin Macklin & Ruth Macklin - 1969 - Synthese 20 (2):261 - 276.
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