Ernst Mayr, who called himself the last survivor of the mythic age of modern evolutionary theory, has died at age 100. Between the world wars and for decades afterward, Harvard Professor Mayr played a ...

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 ...

Ernst Mayr, arguably the preeminent biologist of the twentieth century, died on February 3, succumbing after a short illness at the age of 100. Mayr was the last survivor of a generation of renowned ...

When Mayr outlined several species concepts, including the biological species concept in his 1942 book, he started a new era in species-problem debate. From that point on, Mayr was the major figure in ...

Ernst Walter Mayr, biologist: born Kempten, Germany 5 July 1904; Assistant Curator, University of Berlin 1926-32; Associate Curator, Whitney-Rothschild Collection, American Museum of Natural History ...

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 ...

I've finished the 5th chapter of The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, but I don't have time to put up a review right now. But I do want to comment on a funny passage: I ran into Ernst Mayr as I was ...

Ernst Mayr, the Harvard biologist who took the sweeping evolutionary claims of Charles Darwin and showed how the complex process actually works, died Thursday. He was 100. Mr. Mayr died in Bedford, ...

ERNST MAYR was one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists. He was the last surviving architect of the unifying "evolutionary synthesis" developed in the 1930s and 1940s, which integrated ...

CHARLES DARWIN'S most famous book is called “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”. That is not, however, what it is actually about. Natural selection is there in abundance. Darwin ...

Ernst Mayr, who died on February 3 aged 100, was widely considered to be the world's most eminent evolutionary biologist, a reputation he earned by synthesising Darwin's theories of evolution with ...