This book is about the methods used for unifying different
scientific theories under one all-embracing theory. The process has
characterized much of the history of science and is prominent in
contemporary physics; the search for a 'theory of everything'
involves the same attempt at unification. Margaret Morrison argues
that, contrary to popular philosophical views, unification and
explanation often have little to do with each other. The mechanisms
that facilitate unification are not those that enable us to explain
how or why phenomena behave as they do. A feature of this book is
an account of many case studies of theory unification in
nineteenth- and twentieth-century physics and of how evolution by
natural selection and Mendelian genetics were unified into what we
now term evolutionary genetics.
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