Ernst Mayr
Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, 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 species. In his book ''Systematics and the Origin of Species'' (1942) he wrote that a species is not just a group of morphologically similar individuals, but a group that can breed only among themselves, excluding all others. When populations within a species become isolated by geography, feeding strategy, mate choice, or other means, they may start to differ from other populations through genetic drift and natural selection, and over time may evolve into new species. The most significant and rapid genetic reorganization occurs in extremely small populations that have been isolated (as on islands).
His theory of peripatric speciation (a more precise form of allopatric speciation which he advanced), based on his work on birds, is still considered a leading mode of speciation, and was the theoretical underpinning for the theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould. Mayr is sometimes credited with inventing modern philosophy of biology, particularly the part related to evolutionary biology, which he distinguished from physics due to its introduction of (natural) history into science. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History, 1938
Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History, 1938
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
[New Haven, Conn.] : American scientist, 1977
[New Haven, Conn.] : American scientist, 1977
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997
London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1976
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1976
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
New York : Dover Publications, 1964
New York : Dover Publications, 1964
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
[Cambridge] : [International Society for Science and Religion], 2007
[Cambridge] : [International Society for Science and Religion], 2007
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998
1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998
1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
New York [American Museum of Natural History] 1952
New York [American Museum of Natural History] 1952
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997
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by Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005
New York, The Macmillan company, 1945
New York, The Macmillan company, 1945
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