Quotes About Mayr

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity.

Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.

No one could have predicted that a defenseless, slow-moving biped should become the pinnacle of Creation.

This uneven rate of evolution of different properties of an organism is called mosaic evolution , and it may create difficulties for classification.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

Without Captain Mayr's 'talent-spotting', Hitler might never have been heard of. As it was, if only on the beerhall fringes, he could now become a full-time political agitator and propagandist. He could do for a living the only thing he was good at doing: speaking.