Chronische Bauchschmerzen ernst nehmen

Akute Krankheiten. Chronische Krankheiten, pt. 1: Akute Krankheiten, bks 1–3, Chronische Krankheiten, bks 1–2

Over the past twenty-five years, the study of the medicine of Classical Antiquity has enjoyed a boom unparalleled since the Renaissance. Conference proceedings, books, translations, and articles have appeared in profusion from Venezuela to Japan, and the classical authors themselves are now more widely available in translations for the non-linguist than ever before. In all this two connected de...

Chronische cholestatische Lebererkrankungen und metabolische Knochenstoffwechselstörungen

Chronische Virushepatitis - Naturgeschichte, Diagnostik und Therapie

Ernst Mayr, a retrospective.

During the late summer of 1979, Ernst Mayr and I (Figure 1) had finished editing The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology [1]. He knew that I was working on a long essay about Theodosius Dobzhansky and also planning a book about Sewall Wright. From his farm in Wilton, New Hampshire, Ernst handwrote me a letter (Figure 2) from which this excerpt is taken: ‘In your w...

In memoriam Ernst Mayr

Ernst Mayr, Professor Emeritus of the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, who died on 3 February 2005 in Bedford, Massachusetts, at the age of 100+, was one of the major evolutionary scholars of our time. Mayr’s life was devoted to understanding the biodiversity of life and its dramatic adaptive evolution. His impact on evolutionary biology was profound and long lasting. He is wid...