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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 remarks that the theory was hotly contested by some famous geneticists: William Bateson, Wilhelm Johannsen, Richard Goldschmidt and T. H.
Ernst Walter Mayr ( July 5, 1904 – February 3, 2005 ) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.
Mayr was the second son of Helene Pusinelli and Dr. Otto Mayr.
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.
Stresemann was very impressed and suggested that, between semesters, Mayr could work as a volunteer in the ornithological section of the museum.
Mayr wrote about this event, " It was as if someone had given me the key to heaven.
" Mayr was endlessly interested in ornithology and " chose Greifswald at the Baltic for my studies for no other reason than that ... it was situated in the ornithologically most interesting area.
" During the first semester break Stresemann gave him a test to identify treecreepers and Mayr was able to identify most of the specimens correctly.
Stresemann declared that Mayr ' was a born systematist '.
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.
After Mayr was appointed at the American Museum of Natural History, he influenced American ornithological research by mentoring young birdwatchers.
Hickey remembered later, " Mayr was our age and invited on all our field trips.
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 said of his own involvement with the local birdwatchers: " 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.
Mayr was co-author of six global reviews of bird species new to science ( listed below ).
Mayr was an unconventional atheist, stating he was an atheist towards " the idea of a personal God " because " there is nothing that supports "
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* Ernst Mayr telling his life story at Web of Stories
* Mayr, Gerald ( 2005 ): " Old World phorusrhacids " ( Aves, Phorusrhacidae ): a new look at Strigogyps (" Aenigmavis ") sapea ( Peters 1987 ).
Nevertheless, Donizetti received some musical instruction from Simon Mayr, a German composer of internationally successful operas who had become maestro di cappella at Bergamo's principal church in 1802.
Donizetti was not especially successful as a choirboy, but in 1806 he was one of the first pupils to be enrolled at the Lezioni Caritatevoli school, founded by Mayr, in Bergamo through a full scholarship.
* Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school at Bergamo, Italy.
* Simon Mayr becomes maestro di cappella at Bergamo Cathedral.
In 1931 she met Ernst Mayr at a meeting of the American Ornithologists ' Union ( AOU ), and he encouraged her to write and arranged the publishing the results of her studies.
Ernst W. Mayr, one of the 20th century's most influential evolutional biologists, studied at the University of Greifswald.
It enabled him to study at the British Museum, at the Berlin Zoological Museum under Erwin Stresemann and also at the American Museum of Natural History under Ernst Mayr.
Jean Delacour and Ernst Mayr, in their 1945 revision of the family Anatidae considered it a somewhat abnormal member of the Anatini ( or river-ducks ) group because the hind toe is slightly lobed, display behaviour and the tendency to feed at the surface.
Ernst Mayr said " It was Lankester who founded a school of selectionism at Oxford ".
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.
This exposure to evolutionary theory led him to do graduate work with Ernst Mayr at Harvard from 1968 to 1972.
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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Mayr was able to demonstrate that geographical isolation and the accumulation of genetic differences led to the splitting of species.
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.
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As Ernst W. Mayr observes, " transspecific evolution is nothing but an extrapolation and magnification of the events that take place within populations and species ... it is misleading to make a distinction between the causes of micro-and macroevolution ”.
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 ".
The Wallacea Region situated between the Wallace Line ( after Ernst Mayr or Thomas Henry Huxley ) and the Lydekker Line
" Mayr, a proponent of allopatric speciation, hypothesized that adaptive genetic changes that accumulate between allopatric populations cause negative epistasis in hybrids, resulting in sterility of the offspring.
In 1965 Ernst Mayr cited Pittendrigh and criticized the last few words cited above for not making a “ clear distinction between the two teleologies of Aristotle ”; evolution involves Aristotle's material causes and formal causes rather than efficient causes.
This clarification was part of the great reconciliation, by Ernst Mayr, among others, in the 1940s, between Darwinian evolution by natural selection and the genetic model of inheritance.
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Mayr also greatly influenced the American ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice.
* 1904 – Ernst Mayr, American biologist ( d. 2005 )
Ernst Mayr wrote that Nice almost single-handedly initiated a new era in American ornithology and the only effective counter movement against the list-chasing movement.
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.
* Ernst Walter Mayr ( 1904 – 2005 ), German American evolutionary biologist
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