Ernst Mayr - teacher, mentor, friend

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter J. Bock
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2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Kleinman

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.


Author(s):  
Niles Eldredge

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.


2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Delaney
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2018 ◽  
Vol 176 (8) ◽  
pp. 1703-1705
Author(s):  
John C. Carey ◽  
Raoul C. M. Hennekam ◽  
Angela E. Lin ◽  
Mason Barr
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2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-121
Author(s):  
Mark Street

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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Waizbort ◽  
Filipe Porto
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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.


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