Joe Cain, University College London, London, UK
Published online: September 2002
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002543
(1904–) German-born American ornithologistwith major impacts on evolutionary theory and systematics in the twentieth century; also tireless campaigner for the importance of biogeography, systematics and the study of organisms when biology seemed increasingly reductionist.
Keywords: ornithology; systematics; biogeography; evolution; modern synthesis
| Further Reading | |
| Mayr E (1932) A tenderfoot explorer in New Guinea. Reminiscences of an expedition for birds in the primeval forests of the Arfak Mountains. Natural History 32: 83–97. | |
| book Mayr E (1942) Systematics and the Origin of Species, from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist. New York: Columbia University Press. | |
| book Mayr E (1963) Animal Species and Evolution. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. | |
| book Mayr E (1982) The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. | |
| book Mayr E and Jaques FL (1945) Birds of the southwest Pacific, a field guide to the birds of the Area between Samoa, New Caledonia, and Micronesia. New York: Macmillan. | |
| book Mayr E, Linsley EG and Usinger RL (1953) Methods and Principles of Systematic Zoology. New York: McGraw-Hill. | |
| Cain J (1994) Ernst Mayr as community architect: launching the Society for the Study of Evolution and the journal. Evolution, Biology and Philosophy 9: 387–427. | |
| Greene J and Ruse M (1994) Special issue on Ernst Mayr at ninety. Biology and Philosophy 9: 263–427. | |
| book Haffer J (1997) ‘We Must Lead the Way on New Paths’: the Work and Correspondence of Hartert, Stresemann, and Ernst Mayr – International Ornithologists. Ludwigsburg: Jochen Hölzinger. | |
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