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Ernst Mayr

German Scientist

Born: Jul 5, 1904

Died: Feb 3, 2005

Change Claim Evolution Evolutionary Life Living

Related authors: Albrecht Kossel Georg C. Lichtenberg Johannes Kepler Max Planck Polykarp Kusch Sebastian Thrun Wernher von Braun Wilhelm Ostwald

Life is simply the reification of the process of living. Ernst Mayr

Life Living Simply Process

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population. Ernst Mayr

Change Relatively Drastic Drastic Change Claimed Small Isolated Occurs Population

I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations. Ernst Mayr

Claim Only Occurs Did Founder

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. Ernst Mayr

Indeed Location Rank Classified Having Had Most Reached Peripheral Occasionally Isolated Occurred Often Again Separate Even Population Found Species

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. Ernst Mayr

Life Friendship My Life Important Big Society Early Years Later Those City New Most Most Important Thing Important Thing Big City Years Offered York New York The Most Important Which Stranger Companionship Thing Early

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. Ernst Mayr

Me Strictly Evolutionary Darwin Seems Rates Vertical Phenomenon

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways. Ernst Mayr

Opportunities Living Adaptive Enter Would Physical Entirely Select Environment New Well Different Unique Novel Population Niches

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. Ernst Mayr

Few Innovations Evolutionary Rapid Give Ecological Inventions Potential Physiological Most Make Improved Behavioral May Doomed Them Species Competitive Extinction

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. Ernst Mayr

Change Claim Claimed Evolutionary Rapid Small Major Geneticist Most Does Occur Theory Novelty Species Founder Widespread

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