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Mayr, Ernst was born on July 5, 1904 in Kempten, Germany. Came to the United States, 1931. Son of Otto and Helene (Pusinelli) Mayr.
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Ernst Mayr is perhaps the most distinguished biologist of the twentieth century, and Systematics and the Origin of Species may be one of his greatest and most influential books. This classic study, first published in 1942, helped to revolutionize evolutionary biology by offering a new approach to taxonomic principles and correlating the ideas and findings of modern systematics with those of other life science disciplines. This book is one of the foundational documents of the "Evolutionary Synthesis." It is the book in which Mayr pioneered his new concept of species based chiefly on such biological factors as interbreeding and reproductive isolation, taking into account ecology, geography, and life history. In his new introduction for this edition, Mayr reflects on the place of this enduring work in the subsequent history of his field.
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Ernst Mayr is perhaps the most distinguished biologist of the twentieth century, and Systematics and the Origin of Species may be one of his greatest and most influential books. This classic study, first published in 1942, helped to revolutionize evolutionary biology by offering a new approach to taxonomic principles and correlating the ideas and findings of modern systematics with those of other life science disciplines. This book is one of the foundational documents of the "Evolutionary Synthesis." It is the book in which Mayr pioneered his new concept of species based chiefly on such biological factors as interbreeding and reproductive isolation, taking into account ecology, geography, and life history. In his new introduction for this edition, Mayr reflects on the place of this enduring work in the subsequent history of his field.
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This masterly and long-awaited work is a full exposition, synthesis, summation, and critical evaluation of the present state of man's knowledge about the nature of animal species and of the part they play in the processes of evolution. In a series of twenty chapters, Mr. Mayr presents a consecutive story, beginning with a description of evolutionary biology and ending with a discussion of man as a biological species. Calling attention to unsolved problems, and relating the evolutionary subject matter to appropriate material from other fields, such as physiology, genetics, and biochemistry, the author integrates and interprets existing data. Believing that an unequivocal stand is more likely to produce constructive criticism than evasion of an issue, he does not hesitate to choose that interpretation of a controversial matter which to him seems most consistent with the emerging picture of the evolutionary process. Between the terminal points mentioned above, Mr. Mayr pursues the narrative through discussions of species concepts and their application, morphological species characters and sibling species, biological properties of species, isolating mechanisms, hybridization, the variation and genetics of populations, storage and protection of genetic variation, the unity of the genotype, geographic variation, the polytypic species of the taxonomist, the population structure of species, kinds of species, multiplication of species, geographic speciation, the genetics of speciation, the ecology of speciation, and species and transpecific evolution. The volume provides a valuable glossary; and an inclusive bibliography greatly extends its range for those who wish to investigate special aspects of the material. Animal Species and Evolution is presented as a permanent entity. In accordance with the author's feeling that the acquisition of new knowledge will require a new statement, rather than an emendation of a previous one, no substantive revisions of this volume are planned for future printings. Because of the impossibility of experimenting with man, and because an understanding of man's biology is indispensable for safeguarding his future, emphasis throughout this book is placed on those findings from the higher animals which are directly applicable to man. In his final chapter on hominids and the various forms of Homo, Mr. Mayr comes to the conclusion that, while modem man appears to be just as well adapted for survival purposes as were his ancestors, there is much evidence to suggest that he is threatened by the loss of his most typically human characteristics. It would be within his power to reverse this tendency.
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Representative of the international acclaim accorded Ernst Mayr's Animal Species and Evolution, published in 1963, is Sir Julian Huxley's description of it as "a magistral book... certainly the most important study of evolution that has appeared in many years--perhaps since the publication of The Origin of Species." In his extraordinary book, Mr. Mayr fully explored, synthesized, and evaluated man's knowledge about the nature of animal species and the part they play in the process of evolution. Now, in this long-awaited abridged edition, Mr. Mayr's definitive work is made available to the interested nonspecialist, the college student, and the general reader. The author has retained the dominant themes of his original study--themes now more widely accepted than they were in 1963: the species is the most important unit of evolution; individuals (and not genes) are the targets of natural selection, hence the fitness of "a" gene is a nebulous if not misleading concept; and the most important genetic phenomena in species are species-specific regulatory systems that give species internal cohesion. Each of the twenty chapters of the original edition has been revised; six have been extensively reworked. Discussions of peripheral subjects and massive citations of the literature have been eliminated, but the glossary has been greatly expanded. The focal point of the volume is, naturally, the species--a reproductively isolated aggregate of interbreeding populations. Presenting an overview of evolutionary biology in Chapter 1, Mr. Mayr then considers the nature of species, their population structure, their biological interactions, the multiplication of species, and their role in evolution. Because of the impossibility of experimenting with man and because an understanding of man's biology is indispensable for safeguarding his future, emphasis throughout the book is placed on those findings from higher animals which are directly applicable to man. The last chapter, "Man as a Biological Species," is of particular interest to the general reader. Mr. Mayr concludes that while modern man appears to be as well adapted for survival purposes as were his ancestors, there is much evidence to suggest that he is threatened by the loss of his most typically human characteristics.
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( Representative of the international acclaim accorded E...)
Representative of the international acclaim accorded Ernst Mayr's Animal Species and Evolution, published in 1963, is Sir Julian Huxley's description of it as "a magistral book... certainly the most important study of evolution that has appeared in many years--perhaps since the publication of The Origin of Species." In his extraordinary book, Mr. Mayr fully explored, synthesized, and evaluated man's knowledge about the nature of animal species and the part they play in the process of evolution. Now, in this long-awaited abridged edition, Mr. Mayr's definitive work is made available to the interested nonspecialist, the college student, and the general reader. The author has retained the dominant themes of his original study--themes now more widely accepted than they were in 1963: the species is the most important unit of evolution; individuals (and not genes) are the targets of natural selection, hence the fitness of "a" gene is a nebulous if not misleading concept; and the most important genetic phenomena in species are species-specific regulatory systems that give species internal cohesion. Each of the twenty chapters of the original edition has been revised; six have been extensively reworked. Discussions of peripheral subjects and massive citations of the literature have been eliminated, but the glossary has been greatly expanded. The focal point of the volume is, naturally, the species--a reproductively isolated aggregate of interbreeding populations. Presenting an overview of evolutionary biology in Chapter 1, Mr. Mayr then considers the nature of species, their population structure, their biological interactions, the multiplication of species, and their role in evolution. Because of the impossibility of experimenting with man and because an understanding of man's biology is indispensable for safeguarding his future, emphasis throughout the book is placed on those findings from higher animals which are directly applicable to man. The last chapter, "Man as a Biological Species," is of particular interest to the general reader. Mr. Mayr concludes that while modern man appears to be as well adapted for survival purposes as were his ancestors, there is much evidence to suggest that he is threatened by the loss of his most typically human characteristics.
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(Populations, species, and evolution : an abridgment of An...)
Populations, species, and evolution : an abridgment of Animal species and evolution. Author: Ernst Mayr. Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970. Edition/Format: Book : English. ISBN: 0674690109 9780674690103 0674690133 9780674690134 OCLC Number: 114063 Notes: 1963 ed. published under title: Animal species and evolution. Description: xv, 453 p. : ill., maps. ; 25 cm. Contents: Evolutionary biology -- Species concepts and their application -- Morphological species characters and sibling species -- Biological properties of species -- Isolating mechanisms -- The breakdown of isolating mechanisms (Hybridization) -- The population, its variation and genetics -- Factors reducing the genetic variation of populations -- Storage and protection of genetic variation -- The unity of the genotype -- Geographic variation -- The polytypic species of the taxonomist -- The population structure of species -- Kinds of species -- Multiplication of species -- Geographic speciation -- The genetics of speciation -- The ecology of speciation -- Species and transpecific evolution -- Man as a biological species -- Glossary.
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The diversity of living forms and the unity of evolutionary processes are themes that have permeated the research and writing of Ernst Mayr, a Grand Master of evolutionary biology. The essays collected here are among his most valuable and durable: contributions that form the basis for much of the contemporary understanding of evolutionary biology.
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Biology was forged into a single, coherent science only within living memory. In this volume the thinkers responsible for the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology and genetics come together to analyze that remarkable event. In a new Preface, Ernst Mayr calls attention to the fact that scientists in different biological disciplines varied considerably in their degree of acceptance of Darwin's theories. Mayr shows us that these differences were played out in four separate periods: 1859 to 1899, 1900 to 1915, 1916 to 1936, and 1937 to 1947. He thus enables us to understand fully why the synthesis was necessary and why Darwin's original theory—that evolutionary change is due to the combination of variation and selection—is as solid at the end of the twentieth century as it was in 1859.
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No one in this century can speak with greater authority on the progress of ideas in biology than Ernst Mayr. And no book has ever established the life sciences so firmly in the mainstream of Western intellectual history as The Growth of Biological Thought. Ten years in preparation, this is a work of epic proportions, tracing the development of the major problems of biology from the earliest attempts to find order in the diversity of life, to modern research into the mechanisms of gene transmission.
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(Biology; Evolution (Biology); General; Life Sciences; Non...)
Biology; Evolution (Biology); General; Life Sciences; Non-Fiction; Philosophy; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Reader's Catalog; Science
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Evolutionary theory ranks as one of the most powerful concepts of modern civilization. Its effects on our view of life have been wide and deep. One of the most world-shaking books ever published, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, first appeared in print over 130 years ago, and it touched off a debate that rages to this day. Every modern evolutionist turns to Darwin's work again and again. Current controversies in the life sciences very often have as their starting point some vagueness in Darwin's writings or some question Darwin was unable to answer owing to the insufficient biological knowledge available during his time. Despite the intense study of Darwin's life and work, however, many of us cannot explain his theories (he had several separate ones) and the evidence and reasoning behind them, nor do we appreciate the modifications of the Darwinian paradigm that have kept it viable throughout the twentieth century. Who could elucidate the subtleties of Darwin's thought and that of his contemporaries and intellectual heirs--A. R. Wallace, T. H. Huxley, August Weismann, Asa Gray--better than Ernst Mayr, a man considered by many to be the greatest evolutionist of the century? In this gem of historical scholarship, Mayr has achieved a remarkable distillation of Charles Darwin's scientific thought and his enormous legacy to twentieth-century biology. Here we have an accessible account of the revolutionary ideas that Darwin thrust upon the world. Describing his treatise as "one long argument," Darwin definitively refuted the belief in the divine creation of each individual species, establishing in its place the concept that all of life descended from a common ancestor. He proposed the idea that humans were not the special products of creation but evolved according to principles that operate everywhere else in the living world; he upset current notions of a perfectly designed, benign natural world and substituted in their place the concept of a struggle for survival; and he introduced probability, chance, and uniqueness into scientific discourse. This is an important book for students, biologists, and general readers interested in the history of ideas--especially ideas that have radically altered our worldview. Here is a book by a grand master that spells out in simple terms the historical issues and presents the controversies in a manner that makes them understandable from a modern perspective.
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One long argument by mayr discusses Darwin's original book in plain english
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(Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter s...)
Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The Birds of Northern Melanesia provides by far the most comprehensive study yet available of a rich fauna, composed of the 195 breeding land and fresh-water bird species of the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagoes east of New Guinea. This avifauna offers decisive advantages for understanding speciation, and includes famous examples of geographic variation discussed in textbooks of evolutionary biology. The book results from 30 years of collaboration between the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr and the ecologist Jared Diamond. It shows how Northern Melanesian bird distributions provide snapshots of all stages in speciation, from the earliest (widely distributed species without geographic variation) to the last (closely related, reproductively isolated species occurring sympatrically and segregating ecologically). The presentation emphasizes the wide diversity of speciation outcomes, steering a middle course between one-model-fits-all simplification and ungeneralizable species accounts. Questions illuminated include why some species are much more prone to speciate than others, why some water barriers are much more effective at promoting speciation than others, and whether hypothesized taxon cycles, faunal dominance, and legacies of Pleistocene land bridges are real. These years of study have resulted in a huge database, complete with distributions of all 195 species on 76 islands, together with their taxonomy, colonization routes, ecological attributes, abundance, and overwater dispersal. Color plates depict 88 species and allospecies, many of which have never been seen before. For students of speciation, Northern Melanesian birds now constitute a model system against which other biotas can be compared. For population biologists interested in other problems besides speciation, this rich database can now be mined for insights.
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Populations, species, and evolution : an abridgment of Animal species and evolution. Author: Ernst Mayr. Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970. Edition/Format: Book : English. ISBN: 0674690109 9780674690103 0674690133 9780674690134 OCLC Number: 114063 Notes: 1963 ed. published under title: Animal species and evolution. Description: xv, 453 p. : ill., maps. ; 25 cm. Contents: Evolutionary biology -- Species concepts and their application -- Morphological species characters and sibling species -- Biological properties of species -- Isolating mechanisms -- The breakdown of isolating mechanisms (Hybridization) -- The population, its variation and genetics -- Factors reducing the genetic variation of populations -- Storage and protection of genetic variation -- The unity of the genotype -- Geographic variation -- The polytypic species of the taxonomist -- The population structure of species -- Kinds of species -- Multiplication of species -- Geographic speciation -- The genetics of speciation -- The ecology of speciation -- Species and transpecific evolution -- Man as a biological species -- Glossary.
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¿Cuál es el significado real y profundo de la vida? ¿Cómo evolucionan y se desarrollan los organismos? ¿Cómo encaja el hombre en el complejo proceso de la evolución? Toda persona debería tener presente, a la hora de reflexionar sobre el mundo y los seres vivos, los conceptos básicos de la biología moderna: evolución, biodiv
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Evolution is the most important idea in biology, with implications that go far beyond science. But despite more than a century's progress in understanding, there is still widespread confusion about what evolution is, how it works and why it is the only plausible mechanism that can account for the remarkable diversity of life on Earth. Now, for the first time in a book aimed at a general audience, one of the founding fathers of modern biology, tells us what we know - and what we do not know - about evolution. In showing how evolution has gone from theory to fact, he explores various controversial fads and fallacies such as punctuated equilibrium, the selfish-gene theory and evolutionary psychology. He ends by looking at what we know about human evolution and how, in turn, this knowledge has affected the way in which we view ourselves and the world. Up to date, thorough and no-nonsense, this is the ideal primer for anyone who wants to know about evolution but doesn't know where to start.
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Mayr, Ernst was born on July 5, 1904 in Kempten, Germany. Came to the United States, 1931. Son of Otto and Helene (Pusinelli) Mayr.
Candidate medical, University Greifswald, 1925. Doctor of Philosophy, University Berlin, 1926. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Uppsala University, Sweden, 1957.
Honorary Doctor of Science, Yale University, 1959. Honorary Doctor of Science, University Melbourne, 1959. Honorary Doctor of Science, Oxford University, 1966.
Honorary Doctor of Science, University Munich, 1968. Honorary Doctor of Science, University Paris, 1974. Honorary Doctor of Science, Harvard University, 1980.
Honorary Doctor of Science, Guelph University. Honorary Doctor of Science, University Cambridge, 1982. Honorary Doctor of Science, University Vermont, 1984.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1993. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Vienna, 1994. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Konstanz, 1994.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Bologna, 1995. Doctor of Science (honorary), Rollins College, 1997. Doctor ner. national (honorary), University Berlin, 2000.
Assistant curator zoological museum University Berlin, 1926-1932. Member Rothschild expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1928, expedition to Mandated Ty. of New Guinea, 1928-1929, Whitney Expedition, 1929-1930. Research associate American Museum Natural History, New York City, 1931-1932, associate curator, 1932-1944, curator, 1944-1953.
Jesup lecturer Columbia University, 1941. Alexander Agassiz professor zoology Harvard University, 1953-1975, emeritus, 1975—2005. Director Museum Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1961-1970.
Messenger lecturer Cornell University, 1985. Hitchcock professor University California, 1987. Honorary fellow Center for Philosophy of Science, University Pittsburgh.
(¿Cuál es el significado real y profundo de la vida? ¿Cómo...)
( This masterly and long-awaited work is a full expositi...)
(The diversity of living forms and the unity of evolutiona...)
(Ernst Mayr is perhaps the most distinguished biologist of...)
(Ernst Mayr is perhaps the most distinguished biologist of...)
( Representative of the international acclaim accorded E...)
( Representative of the international acclaim accorded E...)
(Biology; Evolution (Biology); General; Life Sciences; Non...)
(No one in this century can speak with greater authority o...)
(Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter s...)
(Evolution is the most important idea in biology, with imp...)
(Evolutionary theory ranks as one of the most powerful con...)
(Populations, species, and evolution : an abridgment of An...)
(Populations, species, and evolution : an abridgment of An...)
( Biology was forged into a single, coherent science onl...)
(One long argument by mayr discusses Darwin's original boo...)
(1957 American Museum Novitates 1823 : 1-14, 6 figures and...)
(Cambridge 1965 2nd Belknap, Harvard University. The compl...)
(1944 American Museum Novitates 1294 : 12 pages. Softbound...)
(1944 American Museum Novitates 1269 : 8 pages. Softbound,...)
(Preface By Robert Cushman Murphy. Edited By Margaret B. H...)
(1971 453 pages. Soft bound, shelf wear, text in very good...)
(1971 453 pages. Soft bound, shelf wear, text in very good...)
(Field Guide)
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(Pp. 260, folding map. Original printed wraps, 8vo.)
Author: List of New Guinea Birds, 1941, Systematics and the Origin of Species, 1942, Birds of the Southwest Pacific, 1945, Birds of the Philippines, (with Jean Delacour), 1946, Methods and Principles of Systematic Zoology, (with E.G. Linsley and R.L. Usinger), 1953, Animal Species and Evolution, 1963, Principles of Systematic Zoology, 1969, second edition, 1991, Populations, Species and Evolution, 1970, Evolution and the Diversity of Life, 1976, (with W. Provine) Evolutionary Synthesis, 1980, Biologie de l'Evolution, 1981, The Growth of Biological Thought, 1982, Toward a New Philosophy of Biology, 1988, One Long Argument, 1991, This is Biology, 1997, What Evolution Is, 2001, (with J. Diamond) The Birds of Northern Melanesia, 2001, What Makes Biology Unique?, 2004. Editor: Evolution, 1947-1949.
President XIII International Ornith. Congress, 1962. Fellow Linnaean Society New York (past secretary editor), American Ornithological Union (president 1956-1959), New York Zoological Society. Member National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Society Zoologists, Society Systematic Zoology (president 1966), Society Study Evolution (secretary 1946, president 1950).
Honorary or correspondent member Royal Society, Royal Australian, British ornithological unions, Zoological Society London, Society Ornithological France, Royal Society New Zealand, Botanical Gardens Indonesia, South Africa Ornithological Society, Linnean Society London, Deutsche Akademie der naturforsch Leopoldina, Accad. Naz. dei Lincei, Royal Society, Academie des Science, Center for Philosophy of Science (Pittsburgh), Russian Academy of Sciences, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie, New York Academy of Sciences, Darwin Science Berlin, Muelleriana.
Married Margarete Simon, May 4, 1935 (deceased 1990). Children: Christa E. Menzel, Susanne Harrison.