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MAYR, Ernst Walter (1904 – 2005)

MAYR, Ernst Walter (1904 – 2005)

1904 – 2005

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source University of Konstanz · Meyer A. (2005). "On the Importance of Being Ernst Mayr". PLoS Biology 3 (5): e152. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030152 . · CC BY 2.5

1942 CE

#255.1

Systematics and the origin of species.

One of the canonical publications of the modern evolutionary synthesis. Mayr discussed the different ways different investigators identify species, and he characterized these different approaches as different species …

1963 CE

#13033

Animal species and evolution.

Condensed and extensively revised as Populations, species and evolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970.

1982 CE

#258.12

The growth of biological thought. Diversity, evolution, and inheritance.

An interpretive history of what Mayr calls “ultimate” explanations in biology, reflecting Mayr’s expertise in systematics, evolution, and genetics.