基本説明
The first detailed biography of Ernst Mayr. Contents - The young naturalist in Germany. Childhood and youth. The budding scientist.- Ornithologist in New York. The New York years (1931 - 1953). Ornithologist and zoogeographer. Biological species and speciation - Mayr's first synthesis. Life in New York during World War II.- Professor of Zoology at Harvard University. The Harvard years (1953 - 2005). Evolutionary biology - Mayr's second synthesis. Ernst Mayr - The man. Systematics and classification.
Full Description
This book is the first detailed biography of Ernst Mayr. He was an 'architect' of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, and the greatest evolutionary biologist since Charles Darwin. He is one of the most widely known biologists of the 20th century.
