Ernst Mayr

Scientist

1904-07-05

Quotes by Ernst Mayr

• Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

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• It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

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• 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.

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• Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

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