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Snuckles
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posted 04 February 2005 10:33 PM      Profile for Snuckles   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Ernst Mayr, who helped develop the ``evolutionary synthesis'' that fused Charles Darwin's theories with the science of genetics, died. He was 100.

Mayr was called the ``greatest living evolutionary biologist'' by Stephen Jay Gould, his late colleague at Harvard University. He died yesterday at a retirement community in Bedford, Massachusetts, after a brief illness, the school said in a statement on its Web site.

During an eight-decade career that began the year after John Scopes was tried in Tennessee for teaching evolution, Mayr helped refine the definition of a species and explain how new species developed.


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Pimji
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posted 05 February 2005 01:38 AM      Profile for Pimji   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
That reminds me I missed mud puppy night tonight in Oxford Mills. The lead scientist was supposed induce a feeding frenzy by using frozen road kill rana (leopard frogs). The frogs are left over from last springs population variance study.
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Agent 204
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posted 05 February 2005 09:59 AM      Profile for Agent 204   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Sounds like he had a great life, at least.

Curiously, I can't find anything about Mayr in The Selfish Gene. But then, Gould liked him, so I guess Dawkins couldn't.


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