This book tells us about the collapse of a world view, the reasons behind it and the ensuing consequences. Only a generation ago our teachers still knew how to distinguish between a scientific and an unscientific approach to zoology: science was defined as morphology. Nowadays among the hundreds of fields of science it would prove problematic to find morphology at all. This may seem trivial, but how it came to be so, is of quite some interest and the consequences anything but trivial.

About the author:

University professor Rupert Riedl was born in 1925 in Vienna, Austria.

He read biology at university and in 1968 he took up the post of Professor of Zoology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, where he was bestowed with that institution's highest title of Kenan Professor of Zoology.

He returned to Vienna in 1971 and became head of the Institute of Zoology at the University of Vienna in 1973.

After retiring from his academic post he founded the Konrad-Lorenz-Institute for Evolutionary and Cognitive Research and in 2002 established the "Club of Vienna".

Prior publications include: "Die Ordnung des Lebendigen" (The Order of Life) 1975, "Biologie der Erkenntnis" (The Biology of Knowledge) 1980, "Ursachen des Wachstums" (Reasons for Growth) 1996.

Rupert Riedl has gained a wide audience through his television documentary series, "Poseidon's Garden".