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  2. Ernst Mayr - Wikipedia

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    Mayr was an outspoken defender of the scientific method and was known to critique sharply science on the edge. As a notable example, in 1995, he criticized the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), as conducted by fellow Harvard professor Paul Horowitz , as being a waste of university and student resources for its inability to ...

  3. Ernst Mayr (computer scientist) - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Wilhelm Mayr (born 18 May 1950) is a German computer scientist and mathematician. He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1997 awarded for his contributions to theoretical computer science. [1] Mayr's research in computer science covers algorithms and complexity theory.

  4. Ernst Mayer - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Mayer (24 June 1796 [1] – 21 January 1844) was a German sculptor in the classical style. He was a pupil of Antonio Isopi and worked for Leo von Klenze , mainly in Munich where in 1830 he became Professor of Sculpture at the Polytechnic, now the Technical University .

  5. Four causes - Wikipedia

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    Contrary to Ayala's position, Ernst Mayr states that "adaptedness... is a posteriori result rather than an a priori goal-seeking." [49] Various commentators view the teleological phrases used in modern evolutionary biology as a type of shorthand. For example, S. H. P. Madrell writes that "the proper but cumbersome way of describing change by ...

  6. Founder effect - Wikipedia

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    Founder effect: The original population (left) could give rise to different founder populations (right). In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population.

  7. On the Origin of Species - Wikipedia

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    Darwin's theory of evolution is based on key facts and the inferences drawn from them, which biologist Ernst Mayr summarised as follows: [6] Every species is fertile enough that if all offspring survived to reproduce, the population would grow (fact). Despite periodic fluctuations, populations remain roughly the same size (fact).

  8. History of evolutionary thought - Wikipedia

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    Plato was called by biologist Ernst Mayr "the great antihero of evolutionism," [13] because he promoted belief in essentialism, which is also referred to as the theory of Forms. This theory holds that each natural type of object in the observed world is an imperfect manifestation of the ideal, form or "species" which defines that type.

  9. Vitalism - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Mayr (1904–2005) wrote: It would be ahistorical to ridicule vitalists. When one reads the writings of one of the leading vitalists like Driesch one is forced to agree with him that many of the basic problems of biology simply cannot be solved by a philosophy as that of Descartes, in which the organism is simply considered a machine...