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Ernst Mayr was a German-American evolutionary biologist and ornithologist renowned for his contributions to the field of evolutionary biology. His work on the concept of biological species and the importance of geographic isolation in speciation helped shape modern evolutionary theory. Mayr's influential books, such as "Systematics and the Origin of Species," continue to be essential reading for understanding evolutionary processes. His research greatly impacted our understanding of biodiversity and species formation.
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"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."

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"All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population."

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

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"Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways."

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"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."

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"According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another."

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"Life is simply the reification of the process of living."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential."

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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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