The papers in this volume were originally presented at a Conference
on Explanation in Biology held at Asilomar State Park,
Monterey, California, in June 1968. The aim of the conference
was to bring together historians and philosophers of science and
biologists so that they might discuss the range of problems in
which they had common interest. A full interchange of ideas
between the working scientist, the philosopher, and the historian
occurs seldom enough to have made this project one which
merited attention.