Ernst Mayr said " It was Lankester who founded a school of selectionism at Oxford ".

Mayr encouraged his Linnaean Society seminar participants to take up a specific research project of their own.

One letter from the Harvard biologist Ernst Mayr wrote that Beebe's work had been an inspiration to his own, particularly A Monograph of the Pheasants and Beebe's books about jungle wildlife.

E. O. Wilson, Sylvia Earle and Ernst Mayr have all described Beebe's work as an influence on their own choice of careers.

Gould also specifically pointed out an error in the use of the term " polyploidy "; stated that Johnson incorrectly refers to Otto Schindewolf as a saltationist, " attacks " outdated statements of Simpson and Mayr ; fails to point out that Henry Fairfield Osborn corrected his own mistake regarding Nebraska Man ; and stated that Johnson overlooks " self-organizing properties of molecules and other physical systems " that, in Gould's opinion, makes the self-assembly of RNA or DNA plausible.

Mayr adopted Pittendrigh ’ s term, but supplied his own definition:

Ernst Mayr approached the problem with a new definition for the concept of species.

Mayr is sometimes credited with inventing modern philosophy of biology, particularly the part related to evolutionary biology, which he distinguished from physics due to its introduction of ( natural ) history into science.

In February 1923, Mayr passed his high school examination ( Abitur ) and his mother rewarded him with a pair of binoculars.

The heckling of this German foreigner was tremendous, but he gave tit for tat, and any modern picture of Dr E. Mayr as a very formal person does not square with my memory of the 1930s.

Mayr encouraged her to correspond with European ornithologists and helped her in her landmark study on song sparrows.

As a traditionally trained biologist with little mathematical experience, Mayr was often highly critical of early mathematical approaches to evolution such as those of J. B. S.

In 1995 he was awarded the Linnean Medal by The Linnean Society and in 1999 he was awarded the Crafoord Prize jointly with Ernst Mayr and George C. Williams.

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.

However, such usage has been described by some as incorrect ; with Ernst Mayr writing in 1984:

* Mayr, Gerald ( 2004 ): A partial skeleton of a new fossil loon ( Aves, Gaviiformes ) from the early Oligocene of Germany with preserved stomach content.

In the 1920s Rensch, who like Mayr did field work in Indonesia, analyzed the geographic distribution of polytypic species and complexes of closely related species paying particular attention to how variations between different populations correlated with local environmental factors such as differences in climate.

The Aegothelidae ( owlet-nightjars ) with about a dozen living species in one genus are apparently closer to the Apodiformes ( Mayr 2002 ); these and the Caprimulgiformes are closely related, being grouped together as Cypselomorphae HTML abstract

At least the Eocoraciidae are very basal, but the Late Eocene ( some 35 mya ) Geranopteridae form a superfamily Coracioidea with the extant rollers and ground-rollers already ( Mayr & Mourer-Chauviré 2000 ).

The evolution of these wing characteristics has provided the hummingbird with ideal wings for hovering ( Mayr 2002 ).

The hummingbirds, swifts and crested swifts share other anatomical similarities with one another as well as similarities ( notably as to the skull ) with their probable closest living relatives, the owlet-nightjars ( Mayr, 2002 ).

He collaborated extensively with such artists as Albert Mayr, Francesco Michi, Alvin Curran, Mauro Orselli, Michiko Hirayama and others.

Her first research paper was published with the help of Mayr and Erwin Stresemann in the German Journal für Ornithologie in 1933 and 1934 because American journals would not accept such long articles.

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.

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.

This became the longest and greatest of all Beck ’ s expeditions and, as with the " Academy " expeditions, he was joined by many other accomplished biologists with complementary skills, including E. H. Quayle, J. G. Correia, Dr F. P. Drowne, Hannibal Hamlin, Guy Richards, Ernst Mayr, E. H. Bryan Jr., and others.

An in-depth mitochondrial DNA population analysis study stated: “ According to the fossil record, the Red Panda diverged from its common ancestor with bears about 40 million years ago ( Mayr 1986 ).

Coauthored with Ernst Mayr ).

After Mayr was appointed at the American Museum of Natural History, he influenced American ornithological research by mentoring young birdwatchers.

In a similar fashion, Mayr was also quite critical of molecular evolutionary studies such as those of Carl Woese.

Those who did were generally working within the continental European traditions ( as Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Richard Goldschmidt, and Otto Schindewolf were ) and those who didn't were generally working within the Anglo-American tradition ( such as John Maynard Smith and Richard Dawkins ).

It was first fully outlined by Ernst Mayr in 1942, using existing theoretical work by those such as Sewall Wright.

* Mayr, Gerald ( 2003 ): Phylogeny of early tertiary swifts and hummingbirds ( Aves: Apodiformes ).

Mendoza quit by the end of the year and Rikki Mayr ( ex-Lizzy Borden band ) began playing bass for the band during early 1989.

Mayr gets 16 citations and more in the two later editions ; all three published outstanding and relevant books some years later, and their contribution to the synthesis is unquestionable.

The biological concept of species ( BCS ) would not be articulated for 99 years or 1937 by Mayr and Dobzhansky.

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.

In New Guinea, Mayr collected several thousand bird skins ( he named 26 new bird species during his lifetime ) and, in the process also named 38 new orchid species.

Mayr organized a monthly seminar under the auspices of the Linnean Society of New York.

* Vuilleumier, François, Mary LeCroy & Ernst Mayr ( 1992 ) New species of birds described from 1981 to 1990 Bulletin of the British Ornithologists ' Club Vol.

* Falco peregrinus nesiotes, described by Mayr in 1941, is found in Fiji and probably also Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

* 1928 – Ernst Mayr leads the first of three expeditions to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, during which he discovers many new species

* wahgiensis Mayr & Gilliard, 1951 in EC & E New Guinea.

* Zimmer, J. T. & E. Mayr ( 1943 ) New species of birds described from 1938 to 1941 Auk 60 ( 2 ): 249-262 PDF fulltext

* Mayr, E. ( 1957 ) New species of birds described from 1941 to 1955 Journal for Ornithology 98: 22-35

* Mayr, E. ( 1971 ) New species of birds described from 1956 to 1965 J. Ornithol.

* Mayr, E. & F. Vuilleumier ( 1983 ) New species of birds described from 1966 to 1975 J. Ornithol.

* Vuilleumier, F. & E. Mayr ( 1987 ) New species of birds described from 1976 to 1980 J. Ornithol.

* Vuilleumier, François, Mary LeCroy & Ernst Mayr ( 1992 ) New species of birds described from 1981 to 1990 Bull.