The Wondiwoi tree kangaroo was first spotted by legendary evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr in 1928. Mayr spotted it in the mountains of the Wondiwoi Peninsula, which is in the Indonesian state of ...

The keynote address was delivered by the biologist Ernst Mayr. On the surface, the symposium seemed an incredible opportunity to reflect on everything evolutionary biology had accomplished since 1859.

Notable alumni include 19th century landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich, evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, surgeon Theodor Billroth, zoologist Heinrich Bodinus and astrophysicist Thomas Henning.

The first number was issued in July 1947 and it is edited by Dr. Ernst Mayr, of the American Museum of Natural History, assisted by associate editors which include representatives of Great Britain ...

In the 1950s, renowned evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr even argued that no two species of ancient humans overlapped. But in the 70 years since, there has been plenty of evidence refuting that ...

Taxonomy, or the naming of species, is surprisingly complicated – and contentious. It doesn't take much scientific expertise to divide lions from tigers, or pigeons from flamingos, but details ...

IN "Tempo and Mode in Evolution" G. G. Simpson has done for palæontology what Ernst Mayr, in his "Systematics and the Origin of Species", did for taxonomy—he has reviewed the facts of his ...

But in the mid-20th century, biologist Ernst Mayr proposed a more rigorous definition, known as the biological species concept. "He promoted this idea that species are reproductively isolated ...

In the 1940s, Ernst Mayr, a German ornithologist, tried solving this problem with a new definition of species based on how animals breed. If two animals couldn’t breed with each other ...

The team also obtained the first media documentation since 2008 of Mayr's honeyeater, a bird named after the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr. But it's the echidna that has become somewhat of a ...