Recent deaths.(NEWS AND COMMENT)(Ernst Mayr)(Brief Article)(Obituary)

From: Skeptical Inquirer | Date: May 1, 2005 | Copyright information

Ernst Mayr, considered by some the leading evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century, one of the architects of the modern evolutionary synthesis that reconciled Darwin's theories of evolution with new findings in genetics, population biology, and diversity, professor emeritus of zoology at Harvard (the Museum of Comparative Zoology), promoter of evolutionary biology as a discipline and the philosophy of biology as a field, author of such ...

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