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Ernst Mayr has been universally acknowledged as the leading evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century. He earned his Ph.D. in ornithology at the age of 21 from the University of Berlin in 1926. During his tenure at the Berlin Museum, from 1926 to 1930, Mayr led ornithological expeditions to Dutch New Guinea and German Mandated New Guinea ...
Feb 4, 2005 · Dr. Ernst Mayr, the leading evolutionary biologist of the 20th century, died on Thursday in Bedford, Mass. He was 100. Dr. Mayr's death, in a retirement community where he had lived since 1997 ...
Apr 25, 2005 · Ernst Mayr played a central role in the establishment of the general concept of species as metapopulation lineages, and he is the author of one of the most popular of the numerous alternative definitions of the species category. Reconciliation of incompatible species definitions and the development of a unified species concept require rejecting ...
Feb 10, 2005 · Ernst Mayr, the Harvard University evolutionary biologist who has been called “the Darwin of the 20th century,” died on Feb. 3 at a retirement community in Bedford, Mass. A member of the Harvard faculty for more than half a century, he was 100. Ernst Mayr photo gallery. Big Picture profile on Mayr. Mayr’s death came after a brief illness ...
Oct 10, 2007 · Jürgen Haffer's is the first book-length biography of Ernst Mayr. Although others will surely follow, Haffer's will remain unique, as it was virtually co-authored by Mayr as a hybrid between an ...
Jul 6, 2004 · Ernst Mayr was to lead expeditions to Dutch New Guinea and the formerly German-mandated New Guinea, and before he returned home he was asked to join the Whitney expedition in the Solomon Islands. Ernst Mayr left Berlin in 1928 and returned two years later in 1930.
Feb 25, 2005 · The death of Ernst Mayr at age 100 on 3 February marks the end of a scientific era. Mayr was the last living architect of the “Modern Evolutionary Synthesis,” one of the greatest intellectual achievements of 20th-century biology. His 1942 book, Systematics and the Origin of Species, was, along with Theodosius Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species (1937), largely responsible for ...
