Mayr, Ernst

Mayr, Ernst and Provine, William B. The Evolutionary Synthesis. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 1980. 

Mayr, Ernst Joseph Gottlieb Kolreuter s Contributions to Biology, Osiris, 2d ser., 2(1986), pp. 135-176. 

Schmitt to Mayr, June 4 1946, Schmitt Papers, box 24, folder Mayr, Ernst, in which he explained to potential funders, For us systematists evolution has been, throughout, a guiding principle and basic to all our ideas of classification and species. That there may yet be a journal in which the dynamics of evolution and of species will be freely discussed, where pertinent observations and the results of special investigations can be brought together for all who are interested sounds almost too good to be true. ... 

See, for example, Schmitt to Mayr, June 7 1965, Schmitt Papers, box 24, folder Mayr, Ernst. ... 

Mayr, Ernst. 1982. The Growth of Biological Thought. Cambridge, MA Belknap. 

Ernst Mayr, the foremost living interpreter of Darwinian philosophy, is removing the evolutionary idea from the fundamental laws of science and declares it concept driven . He is distancing himself, Darwin and his evolutionary theory from Laplacien determinism and thus makes Darwinism untouchable by Popper s falsification test for hypotheses of science. Darwinism must be recognized as a scheme of plausible explanations, each justified by a prior assertion. Ernst Mayr is correct as concerns the character of the Darwinian model and with that realization the answer has been found as to why a new hypothesis of evolution. 

Later on, the key role of natural selection was also recognised in other fields, and the Modern Synthesis was enriched by a second confluence of disciplines. This extension was realised by various authors, in particular by Theodosius Dobzhansky (1937), Ernst Mayr (1942) and George Gaylord Simpson (1944). Dobzhansky oulined the importance of selection in experimental genetics, and Mayr in biogeography and... 

Even larger usable bandwidths can be obtained for a given average rf power if clean homonuclear Hartmann-Hahn sequences are optimized from scratch (Briand and Ernst, 1991 Quant, 1992 Kadkhodaei et al., 1993 Mayr et al., 1993), rather than modifying existing uncompensated TOCSY sequences. The clean CITY sequence (see Fig. 26C, Table 3), which was developed by Briand and Ernst (1991), is still one of the most efficient broadband Hartmann-Hahn sequences with cross-relaxation compensation. The sequence is constructed using Method C and is based on the computer-optimized symmetric composite pulse R = SS with S = 48° 138° (see Fig. 22F, sequence 5g). The TOWNY (TOCSY without... 

Darwin occasionally uses the term transmutation for change in species, as in his notebook B, where he employs transmutation of Species for the title and refers to transmutation in the text. See Charles Darwin s Notebooks 1836-1844, ed. Paul H. Barrett et al. (Ithaca Cornell University Press, 1987), 7,227. For a vivid description of the composition of this important notebook, where Darwin develops his own theory of species transmutability, see Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin (London Penguin, 1992), 229-239. For Darwin s analogy between artificial and natural selection, see Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, ed Ernst Mayr (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1964), 7-43. 

Ernst Mayr, Joseph Gottlieb Kolreuter s Contributions to Biology, Osiris, 2d ser., 2(1986), 135—176, especially 135. For another recent treatment of Kolreuter s work on species transmutation and its reception, see James L. Larson, Interpreting Nature The Science of Living Form from Linnaeus to Aim/(Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 70—78. 

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species, ed. Ernst Mayr (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1964). 

In his most influential book The Growth of Biological Thought", Ernst Mayr used three words in the subtitle, "Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance". These words clearly reflect the historical changes, and progression in the scientific interests of mankind. 

Burkhardt, R.W., Jr., Ernst Mayr biologist-historian, Biol. Philos., 9, 359-371, 1994. 

Junker, T, Factors shaping Ernst Mayr s concepts in the history of biology, J. Hist. Biol, 29, 29-77, 1996. 

Hennig, W., Cladistic analysis or cladistic classification A reply to Ernst Mayr, Syst. Zool., 24, 244-256, 1975. 

The first two chapters come nearest to this endeavor since they are written by historians of science, skilled in the art of unprejudiced commentary. Mary (Polly) Winsor (Chapter 1) has some rather penetrating statements on scientists writing history, claiming that some do so to influence the future. Her case is compelling even though it may sound uncomfortable to some and is exemplified by the writings of Ernst Mayr and Peter Sneath who, she claims, set up Darwin and Adanson, respectively, as forefathers of their own views. 

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