Ernst Mayr, 100, leading evolutionary biologist OBITUARY

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: February 7, 2005 | Copyright information

International Herald Tribune
02-07-2005
Ernst Mayr, the leading evolutionary biologist of the 20th century, died on Thursday in Bedford, Massachusetts. He was 100. Mayr's death, in a retirement community where he had lived since 1997, was announced by his family and Harvard, whose faculty he joined in 1953. He was known as an architect of the evolutionary or modern synthesis, an intellectual watershed when modern evolutionary biology was born. The synthesis, which was described by Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard as ''one of the half-dozen major scientific achievements in our century,'' ...

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