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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 .
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Ernst Walter Mayr (/ ˈ m aɪər / MYRE, German: [ɛʁnst ˈmaɪɐ]; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) [1] [2] was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist , tropical explorer, ornithologist , philosopher of biology , and historian of science . [ 3 ]
Images of Ernst May's Frankfurt at Art & Architecture Archived 2012-02-12 at the Wayback Machine; Official website of ernst-may-gesellschaft e.v. Archived 2014-06-23 at the Wayback Machine; Review of Ernst May's life and work, by Martin Filler in the NYRB, 2011; Newspaper clippings about Ernst May in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
His goal, however, was to be a history painter and, in 1819, he competed for a gold medal with a work depicting Joseph and Pharaoh. He failed to win and, at the urging of friends, took time off to travel. He returned in 1821, competed and lost again, removed all of his works from the academy's gallery and gave up history painting.
Ernst Meyer may refer to: Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer (1791–1858), German botanist; Ernst Meyer (painter) (1797–1861), Danish painter; Ernst Meyer (Swedish politician) (1847–1925), Swedish politician; Ernst Meyer (German politician) (1887–1930), German Communist Party leader; Ernst Meyer (historian) (1898–1975), German ancient ...
In 1941, Edgar Anderson (whose work on hybridization in the genus Iris had interested Stebbins since they met in 1930) and Ernst Mayr co-presented the lecture series and Mayr later published his lectures as Systematics and the Origin of Species. In 1946, Stebbins was invited on Dobzhansky's recommendation to present the prestigious lectures.
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.