The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
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I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species – often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus – occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.
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Birth: | 5th July, 1904 |
Death: | 3rd February, 2005 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Biologist, Writer |
Ernst Walter Mayr was born in Kempten, Germany. He was a German-born American biologist and science writer. 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. In 1925 he earned a BS in Biology from the University of Greifswald. In 1926 he completed his doctorate in ornithology at the University of Berlin under Dr. Carl Zimmer. In 1953 he became Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University. He wrote several books include: Systematics and the Origin of Species, Birds of the Southwest Pacific, Animal Species and Evolution, The Growth of Biological Thought, Toward a New Philosophy of Biology, and What Evolution Is.
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