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 ...

Ernst Mayr, widely considered the father of modern evolutionary biology, died on February 3 after a short illness. Dr. Mayr, a professor emeritus of zoology at Harvard University, was 100 years old.

Ernst Mayr, widely considered the father of modern evolutionary biology, died on Thursday after a short illness. Dr. Mayr, an emeritus professor of zoology at Harvard University, was 100 years old. Dr ...

Introductory essay: systematics and the future of biology / Edward O. Wilson -- The genetic basis of reproductive isolation: insights from Drosophila / H. Allen Orr -- Inter-locus antagonistic ...

His hair is pure white; his speech, still tinged with his native German, is a tad slow. The body bows a bit to its achieved 99 years--even living legends shuffle in slippers and need sweaters. Ernst ...

ISBN 0-309-09536-0 (hardcover)—ISBN 0-309-54760-1 (pdf) 1. Species. 2. Biology—Classification. I. Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005. II. Hey, Jody. III. Fitch, Walter M ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Ernst Mayr last attended a meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) in 1983, and several generations of ornithologists know him ...

Ironically, one great unsolved problem in Darwin's master work, On the Origin of Species, was just that: How and why do species originate? Darwin and his later followers were faced with a seeming ...

The evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr died on 3 February at the age of 100, after a short illness. A hugely prolific writer and researcher, he was instrumental in developing modern ideas in ...