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    Ernst Walter Mayr (/ˈmaɪər/ MYRE, German: [ɛʁnst ˈmaɪɐ]; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned...
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    Species (redirect from Mayr species)
    later formalised as the typological or morphological species concept. Ernst Mayr emphasised reproductive isolation, but this, like other species concepts...
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    individuals from a larger population. It was first fully outlined by Ernst Mayr in 1942, using existing theoretical work by those such as Sewall Wright...
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    populations. The synthesis was defined differently by its founders, with Ernst Mayr in 1959, G. Ledyard Stebbins in 1966, and Theodosius Dobzhansky in 1974...
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  • Mayr is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Andrea Mayr (born 1979), Austrian female long-distance runner Ernst Mayr (1904–2005)...
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  • 3.245. Ernst Mayr; Jared Diamond (2001), The Birds of Northern Melanesia, Oxford University Press, p. 143, ISBN 978-0-19-514170-2 Ernst Mayr (1963),...
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    Family Collection, The Trustees Birds of the Crane Pacific expedition, Ernst Mayr and Sidney Camras, Field Museum of Natural History, 1938. Fishes of the...
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  • a Zoologist is a book written by zoologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, first published in 1942 by Columbia University Press. The book became...
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    similarities between Java Man and Sinanthropus pekinensis (Peking Man) led Ernst Mayr to rename both Homo erectus in 1950, placing them directly in the human...
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  • 1952 to 1991, which was renamed Systematic Biology. The Society's annual Ernst Mayr Award "is given to the presenter of the outstanding student talk in the...
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    was a slow process. Prominent biologists including Salvador Luria and Ernst Mayr objected to his division of the prokaryotes. Not all criticism of him...
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  • Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biologist, influential in the philosophy of biology Ernst Neizvestny, Russian sculptor Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer Ernst...
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    their theory and called it punctuated equilibria. Their paper built upon Ernst Mayr's model of geographic speciation, I. M. Lerner's theories of developmental...
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  • Thought (992 pages, Belknap Press, ISBN 0674364465) is a book written by Ernst Mayr, first published in 1982. It is subtitled Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance...
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    include E. O. Wilson and Simon Conway Morris. The evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr made the term effectively taboo in the journal Nature in 1948, by stating...
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    Cavalier-Smith, still hold and held to the two-empire system. The late Ernst Mayr, one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists, wrote dismissively...
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    (88): 285. April 1875. doi:10.1080/00222937508681077. ISSN 0374-5481. Mayr, Ernst (March 1944). "Wallace's Line in the Light of Recent Zoogeographic Studies"...
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    the growth of the field of speciation, with major contributors such as Ernst Mayr researching and documenting species' geographic patterns and relationships...
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    1834 – 5 November 1914) was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th...
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  • Perspective". Ann. Psychoanal. 4: 41–61 – via PEP Web. Mayr, Ernst (2002). "BOTANY ONLINE: Ernst MAYR: Walter Arndt Lecture: The Autonomy of Biology". Archived...
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  • Retrieved 19 September 2023. Mayr, Ernst (1991). Principles of Systematic Zoology. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 159. Mayr, Ernst (1991), p. 162. "Taxonomy:...
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  • conceptual framework for research in plant evolutionary biology; according to Ernst Mayr, "Few later works dealing with the evolutionary systematics of plants...
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    science; some have argued for its survival in evolutionary biology, while Ernst Mayr denied that it continued to play a role. It is commonly recognised that...
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  • and Harrison in 1960, "cladist" (for an adherent of Hennig's school) by Ernst Mayr in 1965, and "cladistics" in 1966. Hennig referred to his own approach...
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    OCLC 247687824. Mayr, Ernst; Provine, William B., eds. (1998). The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology. New preface by Ernst Mayr. Harvard...
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    application of the term neo-Darwinism to the historical synthesis. For example, Ernst Mayr wrote in 1984 that: The term neo-Darwinism for the synthetic theory [of...
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    peripatric speciation was first outlined by the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr in 1954. Since then, other alternative models have been developed such...
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  • Abraham Pais (for 1995) Freeman Dyson (for 1996) Max Perutz (for 1997) Ernst Mayr (for 1998) Steven Weinberg (for 1999) E. O. Wilson (for 2000) Oliver Sacks...
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  • leading evolutionary biologists including Theodosius Dobzhansky and Ernst Mayr considered that Waddington was using genetic assimilation to support so-called...
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    delineation of species. The species problem was tackled by the ornithologist Ernst Mayr, who was able to demonstrate that geographical isolation and the accumulation...
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