During the mid 20th century, Ernst Mayr was one of the 'architects' of the synthetic theory of evolution. His contribution to the new theory was the conceptual unification of the processes of the adaptation of populations (anagenesis, phyletic evolution) and the origin of new species (clado...
Ernst Mayr and J. B. S. Haldane, major contributors to the ‘modern synthesis’ in evolutionary theory, set an example of how scientific disagreements need not come in the way of friendship. After getting acquainted, they kept discussing issues related to evolution until just before Haldane’s...
Ernst Mayr received the ‘Darwin-Wallace Medal’ in 1958 because of his work on the definition of species and his contribution in advancing Darwin and Mendel’s theories on evolution. For his work, Animal Species and Evolution, Mayr was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National ...
Ernst Mayr (1904鈥 ), naturalist and ornithologist since his early youth, is one of the 'architects' of the synthetic theory of evolution of the 1940s. His main contribution was the analysis of the origin of species, i.e. the causes of biodiversity. The historical roots of these ideas ...