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Ernst Walter Mayr ( / ˈmaɪər /; German pronunciation: [maɪ̯ɐ]; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) [1] [2] was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. [3] His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the ...
- Ernst Walter Mayr, 5 July 1904, Kempten, Bavaria, German Empire
- German American
- 3 February 2005 (aged 100), Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.
Mar 26, 2024 · Ernst Mayr (born July 5, 1904, Kempten, Germany—died February 3, 2005, Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.) 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.”.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 ...
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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 ...
Feb 16, 2005 · The co-author was Ernst Mayr, widely regarded as the greatest evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century, who died on 3 February 2005. When I met Mayr that Sunday, I was a 16-year-old schoolboy.
- Jared Diamond
- 2005
The History of Evolutionary Thought. Speciation: Ernst Mayr. Image courtesy of the Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University. Dobzhansky’s Genetics and the Origin of Species captivated biologists far beyond the confines of genetics. In the mountains of New Guinea, an ornithologist named Ernst Mayr (right) found the book to be an enormous ...
Feb 3, 2005 · The greatest evolutionary biologist of the 20th century, Ernst Mayr fused Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection with the modern science of genetics. His 1942 book, Systematics and the Origin of Species, established the "biological species" concept, altering mankind's understanding of the nature of a species. Mayr's career began in Germany in the years following World War I. It took him ...
