Ernst Mayr Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous Ernst Mayr quotes and sayings (scientist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Life is simply the reification of the process of living.”
“Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.”
“As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.”
“In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.”
“New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.”
“I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.”
“Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.”
“It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.”
“The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.”
“All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.”
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