Ernst Walter Mayr (* Kempten, Alemania, 5 de julio de 1904 - Bedford, Estados Unidos, 3 de febrero de 2005), biólogo de origen alemán que dedicó gran parte de su carrera al estudio de la evolución biológica, la genética de poblaciones y la taxonomía.
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Biografía
Mayr estudió medicina en la Universidad de Greifswald y se doctoró en la Universidad de Berlín. Durante los años 1930 tomó parte en una expedición de 2 años a Nueva Guinea y las Islas Salomón donde estudió la evolución de la fauna autóctona, especialmente la ornitológica.
Durante 18 años y hasta 1953 trabajó como investigador en el Museo Americano de Historia Natural de Nueva York, donde fue responsable de la taxonomía de aves.
A comienzos de la década de 1930 estaba ya convencido de lo acertado de la teoría evolutiva de Darwin. En 1937 fue uno de los científicos que apoyó la teoría evolutiva sintética moderna esbozaba en el libro "Genética y el origen de las especies" de Theodosius Dobzhansky, y que fue crucial en la aceptación generalizada del concepto de evolución.
En 1950 Mayr propuso una clasificación alternativa de los fósiles, incluyendo los de homínidos. En consecuencia, su propuesta obtuvo una amplia aceptación.
En 1999 recibió en Premio Crafoord en ciencias de la vida, galardón que compartió con los doctores Williams y Smith.
En 2005 Ernst muere en EE.UU con 100 años.
Abreviatura
La abreviatura Mayr se emplea para indicar a Ernst Mayr como autoridad en la descripción y clasificación científica en zoología.
Bibliografía
Libros
- 1942 Systematics and the Origin of Species. Columbia University Press. New York. ISBN 0-674-86250-3
- 1953 con E G Linsley y R L Usinger. Methods and Principles of Systematica Zoology. McGraw-Hill, New York. 328 págs.
- 1963 Animal Species and Evolution. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-03750-2
- 1970 Populations, Species and Evolution. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-69013-3
- 1976 Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-27105-X
- 1982 The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-36446-5
- 1988 Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-89666-1
- 1991 con P Ashlock Principles of Systematic Zoology revised ed. McGraw-Hill, NY. ISBN 0-07-041144-1
- 1991 One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-674-63906-5
- 1997 This is Biology: The Science of the Living World. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-88469-8 [Así es la Biología. Editorial Debate, S.A. Colección Pensamiento. 326 págs. Madrid, 1998 ISBN 84-8306-122-8][1]
- 2001 con Jared Diamond. Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology and Biogeography. Oxford University Press, NY. ISBN 0-19-514170-9
- 2001 What Evolution Is. Basic Books. New York. ISBN 0-465-04426-3
- 2004 What makes biology unique? Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline. Cambridge University Press. New York. ISBN 0-521-84114-3
Artículos
- 1923 "Die Kolbenente (Nyroca rufina) auf dem Durchzuge in Sachsen". Ornithologische Monatsberichte 31:135-136
- 1923 "Der Zwergfliegenschapper bei Greifswald". Ornithologische Monatsberichte 31:136
- 1926 "Die Ausbreitung des Girlitz (Serinus canaria serinus L.) Ein Beitrag zur Tiergeographie". J. fur Ornithologie 74:571-671
- 1927 "Die Schneefinken (Gattungen Montifringilla und Leucosticte)" J. für Ornithologie 75:596-619
- 1929 with W Meise. Zeitschriftenverzeichnis des Museums fur Naturkunde Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 14:1-187
- 1930 (by Ernst Hartert) "List of birds collected by Ernst Mayr". Ornithologische Monatsberichte 36:27-128
- 1930 "My Dutch New Guinea Expedition". 1928. Ornithologische Monatsberichte 36:20-26
- 1931 Die Vogel des Saurwagedund Herzoggebirges (NO Neuginea) Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 17:639-723
- 1931 "Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XII Notes on Halcyon chloris and some of its subspecies". American Museum Novitates no 469
- 1932 "A tenderfoot explorer in New Guinea" Natural History 32:83-97
- 1935 "Bernard Altum and the territory theory". Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New York 45, 46:24-38
- 1940 "Speciation phenomena in birds". American Naturalist 74:249-278
- 1941 "Borders and subdivision of the Polynesian region as based on our knowledge of the distribution of birds". Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Scientific Congress 4:191-195
- 1941 "The origin and history of the bird fauna of Polynesia". Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Scientific Congress 4:197-216
- 1943 "A journey to the Solomons". Natural History 52:30-37,48
- 1944 "Wallace's Line in the light of recent zoogeographics studies". Quarterly Review of Biology 19:1-14
- 1944 "The birds of Timor and Sumba". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 83:123-194
- 1944 "Timor and the colonization of Australia by birds". Emu 44:113-130
- 1946 "History of the North American bird fauna" Wilson Bulletin 58:3-41
- 1946 "The naturalist in Leidy's time and today". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 98:271-276
- 1947 "Ecological factors in speciation". Evolution 1:263-288
- 1948 "The new Sanford Hall". Natural History 57:248-254
- 1950 The role of the antennae in the mating behavior of female Drosophila. Evolution 4:149-154
- 1951 Introduction and Conclusion. Pages 85,255-258 in The problem of land connections across the South Atlantic with special reference to the Mesozoic. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 99:79-258
- 1951 with Dean Amadon, "A classification of recent birds". American Museum Novitates no. 1496
- 1954 "Changes in genetic environment and evolution". Pages 157-180 in Evolution as a Process (J Huxley, A C Hardy and E B Ford Eds) Allen and Unwin. London
- 1955 "Karl Jordan's contribution to current concepts in systematics and evolution". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 107:45-66
- 1956 with C B Rosen. "Geographic variation and hybridization in populations of Bahama snails (Cerion)". American Museum Novitates no 1806.
- 1957 "Species concepts and definitions". Pages 371-388 in The Species Problem (E. Mayr ed). AAAS, Washington DC.
- 1959 "The emergence of evolutionary novelties". Pages 349-380 in The Evolution of Life: Evolution after Darwin, vol 1 (S. Tax, ed) University of Chicago.
- 1959 "Darwin and the evolutionary theory in Biology". Pages 1-10 in Evolution and Anthropology: A Centennial Appraisal (B J Meggers, Ed) The Anthropological Society of Washington, Washington DC.
- 1959 "Agassiz, Darwin, and Evolution". Harvard Library Bulletin. 13:165-194
- 1961 "Cause and effect in biology: Kinds of causes, predictability, and teleology are viewed by a practicing biologist". Science 134:1501-1506
- 1962 "Accident or design: The paradox of evolution". Pages 1-14 in The Evolution of Living Organisms (G W Leeper, Ed) Melbourne University Press.
- 1964 Introduction, Bibliography and Subject Pages vii-xxviii, 491-513 in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, by Charles Darwin. A Facsimile of the First Edition. Harvard University Press.
- 1965 Comments. In Proceedings of the Boston Colloguium for the Philosophy of Science, 1962-1964. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2:151-156
- 1969 Discussion: Footnotes on the philosophy of biology. Philosophy of Science 36:197-202
- 1972 Continental drift and the history of the Australian bird fauna. Emu 72:26-28
- 1972 Geography and ecology as faunal determinants. Pages 549-561 in Proceedings XVth International Ornithological Congress (K H Voous, Ed) E J Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- 1972 Lamarck revisited. Journal of the History of Biology. 5:55-94
- 1974 Teleological and teleonomic: A new analysis. Boston studies in the Philosophy of Science 14:91-117
- 1978 Tenure: A sacred cow? Science 199:1293
- 1980 How I became a Darwinian, Pages 413-423 in The Evolutionary Synthesis (E Mayr and W Provine, Eds) Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1980 with W B Provine, Eds. The Evolutionary Synthesis. Harvard University Press.
- 1981 Evolutionary biology. Pages 147-162 in The Joys of Research (W. Shripshire Jr, Ed.) Smithsonian Institution Press.
- 1984 Evolution and ethics. Pages 35-46 in Darwin, Mars and Freud: Their influence on Moral Theory (A L Caplan and B Jennings, Eds.) Plenum Press, New York.
- 1985. Darwin's five theories of evolution. In D. Kohn, ed., The Darwinian Heritage, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 755-772.
- 1985. How biology differs from the physical sciences. In D. J. Depew and B H Weber, eds., Evolution at a Crossroads: The New Biology and the New Philosophy of Science, Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, pp. 43-63.
- 1988. The why and how of species. Biology and Philosophy 3:431-441
- 1992. The idea of teleology. Journal of the History of Ideas 53:117-135
- 1994. with W.J. Bock. Provisional classifications v. standard avian sequences: heurisitics and communication in ornithology. Ibis 136:12-18
- 1996. What is a species, and what is not? Philosophy of Science 63 (June): 262-277.
- 1996. The autonomy of biology: the position of biology among the sciences. Quarterly Review of Biology 71:97-106
- 1997. The objects of selection Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94 (March): 2091-94.
- 1999. Darwin's influence on modern thought Crafoord Prize lecture, September 23, 1999.
- 2000. Biology in the Twenty-First Century Bioscience 50 (Oct. 2000): 895-897.
- 2001. The philosophical foundations of Darwinism Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 145:488-495
- 2002. with Walter J Bock. Classifications and other ordering systems. Zeitschrift Zool. Syst. Evolut-Forsch. 40:1-25
Ediciones en español
- Mayr, Ernst (2006), Por qué es única la biología: reflexiones sobre la autonomía de una disciplina científica, Katz Barpal Editores. ISBN 978-84-609-8356-9.
- Mayr, Ernst (2001), Una larga controversia: Darwin y el darwinismo, Editorial Crítica. ISBN 978-84-8432-254-2.
- Mayr, Ernst (2005), Así es la biología, Editorial Debate. ISBN 978-84-8306-606-5.
Referencias
- ↑ Martínez-Salanova, J. (1999): Reseña del libro Así es la biología de Ernst Mayr, 1995. Boletín Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 25: 103-104
Enlaces externos
- Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary
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