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Ernst Walter Mayr è stato un biologo, genetista e storico della scienza tedesco naturalizzato statunitense. Considerato uno dei più importanti studiosi dell'evoluzione, si è dedicato in particolare ai meccanismi che presiedono alla "speciazione", cioè alla differenziazione di due specie da una specie genitrice. Negli ultimi anni ...
Ernst Walter Mayr (/ ˈ m aɪər /; German pronunciation:; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist , tropical explorer, ornithologist , philosopher of biology , and historian of science . [3]
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.”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Ernst Mayr. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) fu il primo a sviluppare, all'inizio del XIX sec., una teoria concreta dell'evoluzione graduale, basata sull'eredità dei caratteri acquisiti e sulla tendenza naturale degli organismi ad andare verso una maggiore complessità.
16 feb 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...
- Jared Diamond
- 2005
10 ott 2007 · This incident illustrates some of what made Ernst Mayr the greatest evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century. He is known especially for having woven together field studies of natural ...
1 lug 2004 · It is fortunate that Ernst Mayr has enjoyed such a long life, because he had to fit at least four major careers into it—that of an avian systematist, an evolutionist, a historian of biology, and a philosopher of science. And he was successful in all of those careers, inside and outside ornithology.
