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- He is primarily a naturalist and ornithologist which has influenced his basic approach in science and later in philosophy and history of science. Mayr studied at the Natural History Museum in Berlin with Professor E. Stresemann, a leader in the most progressive school of avian systematics of the time.
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Abstract. Ernst Mayr's scientific career continues strongly 70 years after he published his first scientific paper in 1923. He is primarily a naturalist and ornithologist which has influenced his basic approach in science and later in philosophy and history of science.
- Walter J. Bock
- 1994
Ernst Mayr was a German-born American biologist known for his work in avian taxonomy, population genetics, and evolution. Considered one of the world’s leading evolutionary biologists, he was sometimes referred to as the “Darwin of the 20th century.”
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- Walter Bock
Feb 16, 2005 · Ernst Mayr (1904–2005) | Nature. News & Views. Published: 16 February 2005. Obituary. Ernst Mayr (1904–2005) Jared Diamond. Nature 433 , 700–701 ( 2005) Cite this article. 1110...
- Jared Diamond
- 2005
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.
His outlook as a naturalist, his broad empirical studies, and his ornithological knowledge permi ed him significant new insights into the history and philosophy of biology. He showed that an understanding of the biology of a group of organisms, such as birds, provides a valid foundation for advances in biology.
May 19, 2021 · Abstract. All of the primary fuels of pivoting, questioning, self-awareness, and observation arrive upon the same lost impetus. Empiricism, theory and hypothesis, abstraction, pragmatism, idealism, constructivism, living (naturalized) targets of knowledge acquisition, those tools (pramana in Indic languages and philosophies) that infer or lead ...
