Philosophy of biology

Author: Hu Wengeng
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Biology in the mid-20th century underwent a revolution, and since then, new achievements have emerged one after another, attracting widespread attention from the theoretical community. This book regards the philosophy of biology as an emerging new discipline, enriching Marxist philosophical theory with contemporary biological findings. The book is divided into nine chapters, exploring the research objects of biology, the characteristics of biological systems and their relationship with the environment, the features of biological laws, biological purposefulness, as well as biological evolution and cultural development after Darwin. The book aims to reveal the deepening process of human understanding of the essence of things through the study of the development of biological concepts.