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• Ernst Mayr:

  Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

• Ernst Mayr:

  According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolu

• Ernst Mayr:

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

• Ernst Mayr:

  As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populat

• Ernst Mayr:

  Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selec

• Ernst Mayr:

  I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.

• Ernst Mayr:

  I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached s

• Ernst Mayr:

  In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and

• Ernst Mayr:

  Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary ac

• Ernst Mayr:

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