Ernst Mayr - The origins of my ideas on species (150/150)

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US-German biologist Ernst Mayr (1904-2005) was a leader in evolutionary biology, gaining a PhD at 21. In his seminal work 'Systematics and Origin of the Species' considered as one of his greatest works, he integrated the theories of Darwin and Mendel. [Listener: Walter J Bock; date recorded: 1997]

TRANSCRIPT: You must not forget that I was taught by [Erwin] Stresemann and [Bernhard] Rensch, who also had such ideas and published on such ideas and gave them, so, much of what I have published is in principle not entirely novel or new, it already has… had been pronounced by other people like Stresemann, Rensch, Karl Jordan, Ed Poulton, Moritz Wagner, if you go far enough back. It is only that I have been able to state it, articulate it perhaps more clearly, define it more decisively, produce more actual illustrations for it, and I think that there is no particular time point where I began to think about these things. As soon as I entered, so to speak, the Berlin [Natural History] Museum, that was the moment when I began to be exposed to such ideas.