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Seminal Evolutionist Ernst Mayr Dies
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Ernst Mayr, an evolutionary biologist who connected Charles
Darwin's theories on natural selection to the science of genetics and
in doing so helped create the field of evolutionary biology, died
Feb. 3 of liver cancer at a retirement community in Bedford, Mass.,
where he lived. He was 100.
A seminal figure who began his career searching for birds in New
Guinea, Dr. Mayr developed "evolutionary synthesis," making the
origin of species diversity the central question in biology for the
past six decades.
"I do consider him the Darwin of the 20th century," said Vassiliki
Betty Smocovitis, a ...
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