Ernst Mayr, arguably the preeminent biologist of the twentieth century, died on February 3, succumbing after a short illness at the age of 100. Mayr was the last survivor of a generation of renowned ...

I've finished the 5th chapter of The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, but I don't have time to put up a review right now. But I do want to comment on a funny passage: I ran into Ernst Mayr as I was ...

When Mayr outlined several species concepts, including the biological species concept in his 1942 book, he started a new era in species-problem debate. From that point on, Mayr was the major figure in ...

Ernst Mayr, an evolutionary biologist who connected Charles Darwin's theories on natural selection to the science of genetics and in doing so helped create the field of evolutionary biology, died Feb.

Ernst Mayr, who called himself the last survivor of the mythic age of modern evolutionary theory, has died at age 100. Between the world wars and for decades afterward, Harvard Professor Mayr played a ...

The late, famed evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr's theory of genetic revolution , introduced in 1954, remains controversial to this day and has many detractors. Mayr believed that genes interacted ...

CHARLES DARWIN'S most famous book is called “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”. That is not, however, what it is actually about. Natural selection is there in abundance. Darwin ...

Ernst Mayr, the greatest evolutionary theorist of the 20th century, died last February at the age of 100. Andrew Madden, our obituaries editor (yes, we have one) wrote a very nice tribute to his life ...

The life of Professor Ernst Mayr, who has died aged 100, mirrored that of Charles Darwin. Mayr, the leading evolutionary biologist of his very long time, was an explorer, naturalist, ornithologist, ...

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