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The Growth of Biological Thought (992 pages, Belknap Press, ISBN 0674364465) is a book written by Ernst Mayr, first published in 1982. It is subtitled Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance, and is as much a book of philosophy and history as it is of biology. [1] It is a sweeping, academic study of the first 2,400 years of the science of biology ...
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 ]
This concept Ernst Mayr proposes here is now commonly referred to as the biological species concept. The biological species concept defines a species in terms of biological factors such as reproduction, taking into account ecology, geography, and life history; it remains an important and useful idea in biology, particularly for animal ...
Ernst Mayr, an influential evolutionary biologist [31] In 1947, "a consensus had been achieved among geneticists, paleontologists and systematists and that evolutionary biology as an independent biological discipline had been established" during a Princeton University conference. [32] This 20th century synthesis incorporated speciation.
Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist (published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1988) is a book by Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr. [1]
The concept of teleonomy was largely developed by Mayr and Pittendrigh to separate biological evolution from teleology. Pittendrigh's purpose was to enable biologists who had become overly cautious about goal-oriented language to have a way of discussing the goals and orientations of an organism's behaviors without inadvertently invoking teleology.
Aristotle: The Growth and Structure of His Thought. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-09456-6. Lovejoy, Arthur O. (2011) [1936]. The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-0-674-36153-9. Mayr, Ernst (1985). The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance.
This model was popularized by Ernst Mayr in his 1954 paper "Change of genetic environment and evolution," [3] and his classic volume Animal Species and Evolution (1963). [ 29 ] Allopatric speciation suggests that species with large central populations are stabilized by their large volume and the process of gene flow .