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* Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biologist, influential in the philosophy of biology
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Ernst Mayr remarks that the theory was hotly contested by some famous geneticists: William Bateson, Wilhelm Johannsen, Richard Goldschmidt and T. H.
The science that tries to reconstruct phylogenetic trees and thus discover clades is called phylogenetics or cladistics, the latter term being derived from " clade " by Ernst Mayr ( 1965 ).
Ernst Walter Mayr ( July 5, 1904 – February 3, 2005 ) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.
* Vuilleumier, François, Mary LeCroy & Ernst Mayr ( 1992 ) New species of birds described from 1981 to 1990 Bulletin of the British Ornithologists ' Club Vol.
Ernst and evolutionary
Later, the German morphologist Ernst Haeckel would convince Huxley that comparative anatomy and palaeontology could be used to reconstruct evolutionary genealogies.
Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin.
Ernst Mayr judged him to be the most important evolutionary thinker between Darwin and the evolutionary synthesis around 1930 – 40, and was " one of the great biologists of all time ".
Ernst Haeckel ( 1866 ), in his endeavour to produce a synthesis of Darwin's theory with Lamarckism and Naturphilosophie, proposed that " ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ," that is, the development of the embryo of every species ( ontogeny ) fully repeats the evolutionary development of that species ( phylogeny ), in Geoffroy's linear model rather than Darwin's idea of branching evolution.
* Huxley's main co-respondents in the modern evolutionary synthesis are usually listed as Ernst Mayr, Theodosius Dobzhansky, George Gaylord Simpson, Bernhard Rensch, Ledyard Stebbins and the population geneticists J. B. S.
Still, Ernst Mayr, co-founder of the modern evolutionary synthesis and a critic of both vitalism and reductionism, writing in 2002 after the mathematical development of theories underlying emergent behavior, stated:
In the latter 19th century, the department of zoology taught evolutionary theory, with Carl Gegenbaur, Ernst Haeckel and others publishing detailed theories at the time of Darwin's " Origin of Species " ( 1858 ).
Ernst Mayr, George C. Williams and Jacques Monod picked up the term and used it in evolutionary biology.
This is the idea propagated by Ernst Haeckel as a source of evolutionary evidence ( recapitulation theory ).
Because parasitic organisms often inhabit multiple hosts during a life cycle, evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr stated that internal parasites existing within different hosts demonstrate allopatry, not sympatry.
His work in this area would influence Ernst Mayr, who was also an assistant at the museum from 1927 – 1930, and would contribute to the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis.
In contrast to most of Darwin's supporters, Ernst Haeckel put forward a doctrine of evolutionary polygenism based on the ideas of the linguist and polygenist August Schleicher, in which several different language groups had arisen separately from speechless prehuman Urmenschen, which themselves had evolved from simian ancestors.
This exposure to evolutionary theory led him to do graduate work with Ernst Mayr at Harvard from 1968 to 1972.
Ernst Haeckel | Haeckel's Paleontological Tree of Vertebrates ( c. 1879 ).</ br > The evolutionary history of species has been described as a " phylogenetic tree | tree ", with many branches arising from a single trunk.
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