Ernst Mayr - teacher, mentor, friend

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter J. Bock
Keyword(s):  
Ernst Mayr ◽  
Teacher Mentor

Revising Plants, man and life: Edgar Anderson reshapes a classic book

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Kleinman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Evolutionary Synthesis ◽  
Ernst Mayr ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
Evolutionary Mechanism ◽  
Popular Work ◽  
Scientific Attention ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Jesup Lectures

On at least four occasions, Edgar Anderson (1897–1969) began revising his book Plants, man and life (1952). Given both its place in Anderson's career and his place in the development of evolutionary theory in the mid-twentieth century, the emendations are noteworthy. Though a popular work, Plants, man and life served as the distillation of Anderson's ideas on hybridization as an evolutionary mechanism, the need for more scientific attention on domesticated and semi-domesticated plants, and the opportunities such plants provided for the study of evolution. Anderson was an active participant in several key events in what historians have come to call the Evolutionary Synthesis. For example, he and Ernst Mayr shared the 1941 Jesup Lectures on “Systematics and the origin of species”. Anderson's proposed revisions to his book reflect both an attempt to soften certain acerbic comments as well as an attempt to recast the book as a whole.

Unfinished Synthesis

1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niles Eldredge
Keyword(s):  
Modern Synthesis ◽  
Ernst Mayr ◽  
Conventional Theory ◽  
Higher Taxa ◽  
Evolutionary Thought ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Theodosius Dobzhansky ◽  
George Gaylord Simpson

This study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analyzing the Modern Synthesis first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, and George Gaylord Simpson. The author argues that although only genes and organisms are taken as historic "individuals" in conventional theory, species, higher taxa, and ecological entities such as populations and communities should also be construed as individuals--an approach that yields the ecological and genealogical hierarchies that interact to produce evolution. This clearly stated, controversial work will provoke much debate among evolutionary biologists, systematists, paleontologists, and ecologists, as well as a wide range of educated lay readers.

scholarly journals Goffman at Penn: Star Presence, Teacher-Mentor, Profaning Jester

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Delaney
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Mentor

scholarly journals M. Michael Cohen, Jr.: Author, diagnostician, geneticist, teacher, mentor, syndrome scholar extraordinaire (1937-2018)

2018 ◽  
Vol 176 (8) ◽  
pp. 1703-1705
Author(s):  
John C. Carey ◽  
Raoul C. M. Hennekam ◽  
Angela E. Lin ◽  
Mason Barr
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Mentor

Conjuring Barbara

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-121
Author(s):  
Mark Street
Keyword(s):  
Personal Essay ◽  
Teacher Mentor

Abstract This personal essay remembers the filmmaker's encounters with Barbara Hammer as teacher, mentor, and friend. It traces the production of So Many Ideas Impossible to Do All (dir. Mark Street and Barbara Hammer, US, 2019), a film that considers Hammer's epistolary relationship with the poet Jane Brakhage.

scholarly journals Epidemias e colapso demográfico no México e nos Andes do século XVI: contribuições da biologia evolutiva

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Waizbort ◽  
Filipe Porto
Keyword(s):  
Ernst Mayr ◽  
America Latina

Resumo Discute as epidemias no colapso demográfico de ameríndios no México e na América Andina após a chegada dos espanhóis. A partir das categorias de Ernst Mayr de causas distantes (ou evolutivas) e próximas (ou funcionais), argumenta-se que causas distantes, como causas genéticas, que conferiram resistência imunológica aos espanhóis, manifestaram-se em um cenário muito estratificado, provocando a destruição de incas e astecas. Interpretações recentes do projeto colonialista europeu buscam minimizar a importância das epidemias ou matizá-las com fatores sociais, econômicos e políticos, interpretados aqui como causas próximas. Defendemos que somente pela articulação dessas duas categorias é possível entender a importância das epidemias na conquista espanhola da América Latina.

A Tribute to Robert L. Ebel: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor, and Statesman

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Cizek ◽  
Linda Crocker ◽  
David A. Frisbie ◽  
William A. Mehrens ◽  
Richard J. Stiggins
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Mentor
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