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Tuesday, February 08, 2005

In memory of Ernst Mayr.

I saw this great essay http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/305/5680/46 by Ernst Mayr, written on his 100th birthday last year. He was the last living scientist from the "golden age of the Evolutionary Synthesis." He concludes his essay with the following statement. "The new research has one most encouraging message for the active evolutionist: it is that evolutionary biology is an endless frontier and there is still plenty to be discovered. I only regret that I won't be present to enjoy these future developments."

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