They described evolution as a continuous ... Credit for doing the most to crack this puzzle goes to Ernst Mayr, perhaps the greatest evolutionary scientist of the twentieth century.

As far as evolution goes, that’s a blink of an eye ... The legendary German evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr claimed that eyes had between 40 and 65 independent origins, because they came ...

The prevailing theory goes back almost 60 years, to when biologist Ernst Mayr of Harvard University proposed the "reproductive isolation" theory. When a population of, say, lizards or birds ...

whose development of ideas on evolution and speciation paralleled Darwin's. Islands have continued to play an important role in shaping the thinking of biologists on speciation. Much of Ernst Mayr s ...

Ernst Mayr: Members of a Species Share Reproduction ... shared reproduction within species and the evolution of reproductive barriers between species, are major factors that cause species to ...

Barriers to reproduction. Under the commonly used ‘Biological Species Concept' (Mayr 1942), the formation of new species involves the evolution of reproductive barriers to the production of ...

His Origin of Species would inform “almost every component in modern man’s belief system,” wrote evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr ... s understanding of evolution. In truth Darwin didn ...

BLYTH, MARK HODGSON, GEOFFREY M. LEWIS, ORION and STEINMO, SVEN 2011. Introduction to the Special Issue on the Evolution of Institutions. Journal of Institutional ...

“Humanity’s development of the ability to speak was without doubt the key which made much of subsequent human physical and ...

In fact, it is this facet of natural selection that is easily and massively documented in the DNA record of evolution. “Variations neither useful nor injurious...would be left a fluctuating ...

A little yellow-and-white bird that prefers to date its mates in an idyllic island lifestyle rather than fly to the mainland to mingle is an example of avian species evolution in action ...