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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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Evolution
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0014-3820
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1994.tb01289.x