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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
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 ...
- Jared Diamond
- 2007
In the mountains of New Guinea, an ornithologist named Ernst Mayr (right) found the book to be an enormous inspiration. Mayr specialized in discovering new species of birds and mapping out their ranges. It is no easy matter determining exactly which group of birds deserves the title of species.
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...
25 feb 2005 · The death of Ernst Mayr at age 100 on 3 February marks the end of a scientific era. Mayr was the last living architect of the “Modern Evolutionary Synthesis,” one of the greatest intellectual achievements of 20th-century biology.
