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Mayr
Mayr is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrea Mayr (born 1979), Austrian female long-distance runner * Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), German American evolutionary biologist * Franz Xaver Mayr (1875–1965), Austrian gastroenterologist, invented the Mayr-Kur * Georg Mayr (1564–1623), Bavarian Jesuit priest and Hebrew grammarian * Gunter Mayr (born 1972), Austrian economist * Gustav Mayr (1830–1908), Austrian entomologist * Hans Mayr (canoeist) (born 1944), Austrian sprint canoer * Hans Mayr (trade unionist) (1921–2009), German trades unionist and politician * Hans Mayr, founder of the shoemaking company Ed Meier, Munich * Heinrich Mayr (1854–1911), German botanist * Heinz Mayr (born 1935), German racewalker * Karl Mayr (1883–1945), German politician and officer * Michael Mayr (1864–1922), Austrian historian, politician and Bundeskanzler (1920/21) * Otto Mayr (1930–2025), German mechanical engineer and technology historian * Rupert Ignaz Mayr (16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Mayr
Ernst Walter Mayr ( ; ; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, Philosophy of biology, philosopher of biology, and History of science, historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the Modern synthesis (20th century), modern evolutionary synthesis of Gregor Mendel, Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the Species, biological species concept. Although Charles Darwin and others posited that multiple species could evolve from a single common ancestor, the mechanism by which this occurred was not understood, creating the ''species problem''. Ernst Mayr approached the problem with a new definition for species. In his book ''Systematics and the Origin of Species'' (1942) he wrote that a species is not just a group of Morphology (biology), morphologically sim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |