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Ernst W. Mayr

Born

in Kempten, Germany

July 05, 1904

Died

February 03, 2005

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mayr

Genre

Science, Biology, Evolutionary Biology

Influences

Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Francis Galton, Stephen Jay Gould ...more

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For the computer scientist, see Ernst Wilhelm Meyr

Ernst Walter Mayr (July 5, 1904 – February 3, 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, and historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept.

Although Charles Darwin and others posited that multiple species could evolve from a single common ancestor, the mechanism by which this occurred was not understood, creating the species problem. Ernst Mayr approached the problem with a new definition for the concept of speci ...more

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	What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series) 4.02 avg rating — 3,916 ratings — published 2001 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This is Biology: The Science of the Living World 3.96 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 1997 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance 4.29 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline 4.14 avg rating — 188 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Principles of Systematic Zoology 4.22 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1969 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist 4.25 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Populations, Species, and Evolution: An Abridgment of Animal Species and Evolution 4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1970 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology & Biogeography by Ernst W. Mayr, Jared Diamond 3.43 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Animal Species and Evolution 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1963 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology by Ernst W. Mayr (Editor), William B. Provine (Editor) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.”
― Ernst Mayr

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“Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.”
― Ernst Mayr, Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist

tags: biology, charles-darwin, darwin, evolution, natural-selection, science, variation

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“According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.”
― Ernst Mayr

tags: biology, evolution, jean-baptiste-lamarck, lamarck, science, transformation, transformational-evolution

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