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Mayr died on 3 February 2005 in his retirement home in Bedford, Massachusetts after a short illness.
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* July 5-Ernst Mayr ( died 2005 ), German-born evolutionary biologist.
* June 14 – Johann Simon Mayr, composer ( died 1845 )
Peters died before finishing the work, and the last volumes, as well as updates to some of the first, were completed by Ernst Mayr, James Greenway, Melvin Alvah Traylor, Jr. and others, with the final being volume 16 published in 1987.
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Raimund Schelcher ( 1891 – 1979 ) of the club then suggested that Mayr visit his classmate Erwin Stresemann on his way to Greifswald, where Mayr was to begin his medical studies.
Mayr completed his doctorate in ornithology at the University of Berlin under Dr. Carl Zimmer, who was a full professor ( Ordentlicher Professor ), on June 24, 1926 at the age of 21.
At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Hickey remembered later, " Mayr was our age and invited on all our field trips.
Mayr encouraged her to correspond with European ornithologists and helped her in her landmark study on song sparrows.
In many of his writings, Mayr rejected reductionism in evolutionary biology, arguing that evolutionary pressures act on the whole organism, not on single genes, and that genes can have different effects depending on the other genes present.
Mayr was an outspoken defender of the scientific method, and one known to sharply critique science on the edge.
* Mayr on Eldredge and Gould's punctuated equilibria.
* Mayr, G. ( 2005 ): Tertiary plotopterids ( Aves, Plotopteridae ) and a novel hypothesis on the phylogenetic relationships of penguins ( Spheniscidae ).
Punctuated equilibrium differs from Mayr's hypothesis mainly in that Eldredge and Gould placed considerably greater emphasis on stasis, whereas Mayr was generally concerned with explaining the morphological discontinuity ( or " sudden jumps ") found in the fossil record.
Mayr later complimented Eldredge and Gould's paper, stating that evolutionary stasis had been " unexpected by most evolutionary biologists " and that punctuated equilibrium " had a major impact on paleontology and evolutionary biology.
Darwin's theory of evolution is based on key facts and the inferences drawn from them, which biologist Ernst Mayr summarised as follows:
German composer Simon Mayr wrote an oratorio ( 1793 ) on the story of Sisera for the church of San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti in Venice.
E. O. Wilson, Sylvia Earle and Ernst Mayr have all described Beebe's work as an influence on their own choice of careers.
In the paper describing the fossil Gerald Mayr suggested that it was similar to the stem species of the Grues ( the cranes and limpkins ), and that the limpkins evolved massively long bills as a result of the specialisation to feeding on snails.
The Primitives temporarily added Tony Mayr as a bassist so that Tweedy could play guitar, but a month later the band decided to keep Tweedy on bass and remain a three-piece.
Ernst Mayr, one of the foremost thinkers on evolution, completely rejected sympatry outright, ushering in a climate of hostility towards the theory.
* cognatus Mayr, 1944 on Babar Island.
The opera's Austrian premiere was given by the Vienna State Opera on the following 8 April under the baton of Schuch with Marie Gutheil-Schoder as Octavian, and Richard Mayr as Baron Ochs.
Harvard biologist Ernst Mayr has sharply criticized Horowitz for wasting the resources of the university and the efforts of graduate students on such an endeavour.
In December the same year, guitarist Andreas Eibler left the band on friendly terms and was replaced by Martin Mayr.
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Ernst Walter Mayr ( July 5, 1904 – February 3, 2005 ) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.
* R 1. 95 Elisa ( 19. 3. 1807 Naples, Teatro di S Carlo ) Mayr
* February 3 – Ernst Mayr ( b. 1904 ), evolutionary biologist.
* 3 February-Ernst Mayr ( born 1904 )
Fürst zu Eulenburg und Hertefeld Graf von Sandels ( Starnberg, 19 September 1881-Weeze, 1 August 1963 ), married at Liebenberg, 21 May 1904 Marie Freiin Mayr von Melnhof ( Vienna, 8 April 1884-Weeze, 3 February 1960 )
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In February 1923, Mayr passed his high school examination ( Abitur ) and his mother rewarded him with a pair of binoculars.
In Vienna, Schindler acquired experience in the firm of Hans Mayr and Theodore Mayer, working there from September 1911 to February 1914.
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* 1904 – Ernst Mayr, American biologist ( d. 2005 )
* July 5 – Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist and author ( d. 2005 )
* Mayr, Gerald ( 2005 ): " Old World phorusrhacids " ( Aves, Phorusrhacidae ): a new look at Strigogyps (" Aenigmavis ") sapea ( Peters 1987 ).
* Ernst Mayr ( 1904 – 2005 ), biologist
In 2005, Mayr and Peters described the anatomy of a very well preserved specimen of Archaeopteryx, and determined that its anatomy was more like non-avian theropods than previously understood.
One controversial study concluded that Confuciusornis may be more closely related to Microraptor and other dromaeosaurids than to Archaeopteryx, but this study was criticized on methodological grounds ( Mayr et al., 2005 ).
* Mayr, Gerald ( 2005 ): Tertiary plotopterids ( Aves, Plotopteridae ) and a novel hypothesis on the phylogenetic relationships of penguins ( Spheniscidae ).
* Ernst Walter Mayr ( 1904 – 2005 ), German American evolutionary biologist
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* 1980 How I became a Darwinian, Pages 413 – 423 in The Evolutionary Synthesis ( E Mayr and W Provine, Eds ) Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The term clade was introduced in 1958 by Julian Huxley after having been coined by Lucien Cuénot in 1940, cladistic by Cain and Harrison in 1960, and cladist ( for an adherent of Hennig's school ) by Mayr in 1965.
Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin.
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:
The Wallacea Region situated between the Wallace Line ( after Ernst Mayr or Thomas Henry Huxley ) and the Lydekker Line
Chancellor Mayr had to resign as chancellor in 1922, after the Greater German People's Party left the coalition in disagreement over a treaty signed with the Czechoslovak republic concerning the Sudeten German territories.
Wotruba was first and foremost a sculptor, and the church was a collaboration with Fritz G. Mayr, who continued the work after Wotruba's death.
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