Ernst Walter Mayr (July 5, 1904, Kempten, Germany - February 3, 2005, Bedford, Massachusetts U.S.), was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, … Wikipedia
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Historical studies have since shown that the term "punctuated equilibrium" was more novel than the concept. A role for peripheral populations in speciation was already postulated by L. v. Buch (1825) and fully substantiated by Darwin for the Galapagos mo www.stephenjaygould.org/library/mayr_punctuated.html
Ernst Mayr devoted eight decades to the systematic study of the natural world that he learnt to love as a boy growing up in Bavaria before the First World War. www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1473218,00.html
Credit for doing the most to crack this puzzle goes to Ernst Mayr , perhaps the greatest evolutionary scientist of the twentieth century. www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/06/2/l_062_01.html