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    Ernst Walter Mayr (/ˈmaɪər/; German pronunciation: [maɪ̯ɐ]; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a...
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    Species (redirect from Mayr species)
    later formalised as the typological or morphological species concept. Ernst Mayr emphasised reproductive isolation, but this, like other species concepts...
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    individuals from a larger population. It was first fully outlined by Ernst Mayr in 1942, using existing theoretical work by those such as Sewall Wright...
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    populations. The synthesis was defined differently by its founders, with Ernst Mayr in 1959, G. Ledyard Stebbins in 1966, and Theodosius Dobzhansky in 1974...
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  • 3.245. Ernst Mayr; Jared Diamond (2001), The Birds of Northern Melanesia, Oxford University Press, p. 143, ISBN 978-0-19-514170-2 Ernst Mayr (1963),...
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  • a Zoologist is a book written by zoologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, first published in 1942 by Columbia University Press. The book became...
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    was a slow process. Prominent biologists including Salvador Luria and Ernst Mayr objected to his division of the prokaryotes. Not all criticism of him...
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    Pithecanthropus erectus (Java Man) and Sinanthropus pekinensis (Peking Man) led Ernst Mayr to rename both Homo erectus in 1950, placing them directly in the human...
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    their theory and called it punctuated equilibria. Their paper built upon Ernst Mayr's model of geographic speciation, I. M. Lerner's theories of developmental...
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    the growth of the field of speciation, with major contributors such as Ernst Mayr researching and documenting species' geographic patterns and relationships...
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