Ernst Mayr was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept.
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Mayr's population thinking, central to the mid-20th-century evolutionary synthesis, underlies the conceptual foundations of population ecology.
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was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept.
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5 July 1904
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3 February 2005
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Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 - 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist.
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Mayr was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1988. In 1995 he received
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