Ernst Mayr

Ernst Mayr (July 5, 1904, Kempten, Germany – February 3, 2005, Bedford, Massachusetts USA), was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was at the same time a naturalist, an explorer, an ornithologist and science historian.

Bibliography

Books

• 1942 Systematics and the Origin of Species. Columbia University Press. New York. ISBN 0674862503
• 1963 Animal Species and Evolution. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674037502
• 1970 Populations, Species and Evolution. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674690133
• 1976 Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays. Harvard University Press. ISBN 067427105X
• 1982 The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674364465
• 1988 Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674896661
• 1991 with P Ashlock Principles of Systematic Zoology revised ed. McGraw-Hill, NY. ISBN 0070411441
• 1991 One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 0674639065
• 1997 This is Biology: The Science of the Living World. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674884698
• 2001 with Jared Diamond. Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology and Biogeography. Oxford University Press, NY. ISBN 0195141709
• 2001 What Evolution Is. Basic Books. New York. ISBN 0465044263
• 2004 What makes biology unique? Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline. Cambridge University Press. New York. ISBN 0521841143

Other notable publications

• 1923 "Die Kolbenente (Nyroca rufina) auf dem Durchzuge in Sachsen". Ornithologische Monatsberichte 31:135-136
• 1923 "Der Zwergfliegenschapper bei Greifswald". Ornithologische Monatsberichte 31:136
• 1926 "Die Ausbreitung des Girlitz (Serinus canaria serinus L.) Ein Beitrag zur Tiergeographie". J. fur Ornithologie 74:571-671
• 1927 "Die Schneefinken (Gattungen Montifringilla und Leucosticte)" J. für Ornithologie 75:596-619
• 1929 with W Meise. Zeitschriftenverzeichnis des Museums fur Naturkunde Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 14:1-187
• 1930 (by Ernst Hartert) "List of birds collected by Ernst Mayr". Ornithologische Monatsberichte 36:27-128
• 1930 "My Dutch New Guinea Expedition". 1928. Ornithologische Monatsberichte 36:20-26
• 1931 Die Vogel des Saurwagedund Herzoggebirges (NO Neuginea) Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 17:639-723
• 1931 "Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XII Notes on Halcyon chloris and some of its subspecies". American Museum Novitates no 469
• 1932 "A tenderfoot explorer in New Guinea". Natural History 32:83-97
• 1935 "Bernard Altum and the territory theory". Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New York 45, 46:24-38
• 1940 "Speciation phenomena in birds". American Naturalist 74:249-278
• 1941 "Borders and subdivision of the Polynesian region as based on our knowledge of the distribution of birds". Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Scientific Congress 4:191-195
• 1941 "The origin and history of the bird fauna of Polynesia". Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Scientific Congress 4:197-216
• 1943 "A journey to the Solomons". Natural History 52:30-37,48
• 1944 "Wallace's Line in the light of recent zoogeographics studies". Quarterly Review of Biology 19:1-14
• 1944 "The birds of Timor and Sumba". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 83:123-194
• 1944 "Timor and the colonization of Australia by birds". Emu 44:113-130
• 1946 "History of the North American bird fauna". Wilson Bulletin 58:3-41
• 1946 "The naturalist in Leidy's time and today". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 98:271-276
• 1947 "Ecological factors in speciation". Evolution 1:263-288
• 1948 "The new Sanford Hall". Natural History 57:248-254
• 1950 The role of the antennae in the mating behavior of female Drosophila. Evolution 4:149-154
• 1951 Introduction and Conclusion. Pages 85,255-258 in The problem of land connections across the South Atlantic with special reference to the Mesozoic. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 99:79-258
• 1951 with Dean Amadon, "A classfication of recent birds". American Museum Novitates no. 1496
• 1953 with E G Linsley and R L Usinger. Methods and Principles of Systematica Zoology. McGraw-Hill, New York.
• 1954 "Changes in genetic environment and evolution". Pages 157-180 in Evolution as a Process (J Huxley, A C Hardy and E B Ford Eds) Allen and Unwin. London
• 1955 "Karl Jordan's contribution to current concepts in systematics and evolution". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 107:45-66
• 1956 with C B Rosen. "Geographic variation and hybridization in populations of Bahama snails (Cerion)". American Museum Novitates no 1806.
• 1957 "Species concepts and definitions". Pages 371-388 in The Species Problem (E. Mayr ed). AAAS, Washington DC.
• 1959 "The emergence of evolutionary novelties". Pages 349-380 in The Evolution of Life: Evolution after Darwin, vol 1 (S. Tax, ed) University of Chicago.
• 1959 "Darwin and the evolutionary theory in Biology". Pages 1-10 in Evolution and Anthropology: A Centennial Appraisal (B J Meggers, Ed) The Anthropological Society of Washington, Washington DC.
• 1959 "Agassiz, Darwin, and Evolution". Harvard Library Bulletin. 13:165-194
• 1961 "Cause and effect in biology: Kinds of causes, predictability, and teleology are viewed by a practicing biologist". Science 134:1501-1506
• 1962 "Accident or design: The paradox of evolution". Pages 1-14 in The Evolution of Living Organisms (G W Leeper, Ed) Melbourne University Press.
• 1964 Introduction, Bibliography and Subject Pages vii-xxviii, 491-513 in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, by Charles Darwin. A Facsimile of the First Edition. Harvard University Press.
• 1965 Comments. In Proceedings of the Boston Colloguium for the Philosophy of Science, 1962-1964. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2:151-156
• 1969 Discussion: Footnotes on the philosophy of biology. Philosophy of Science 36:197-202
• 1972 Continental drift and the history of the Austrailan bird fauna. Emu 72:26-28
• 1972 Geography and ecology as faunal determinants. Pages 549-561 in Proceedings XVth International Ornithological Congress (K H Voous, Ed) E J Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• 1972 Lamarck revisited. Journal of the History of Biology. 5:55-94
• 1974 Teleological and teleonomic: A new analysis. Boston studies in the Philosophy of Science 14:91-117
• 1978 Tenure: A sacred cow? Science 199:1293
• 1980 How I became a Darwinian, Pages 413-423 in The Evolutionary Synthesis (E Mayr and W Provine, Eds) Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 1980 with W B Provine, Eds. The Evolutionary Synthesis. Harvard University Press.
• 1981 Evolutionary biology. Pages 147-162 in The Joys of Research (W. Shripshire Jr, Ed.) Smithsonian Institution Press.
• 1984 Evolution and ethics. Pages 35-46 in Darwin, Mars and Freud: Their influence on Moral Theory (A L Caplan and B Jennings, Eds.) Plenum Press, New York.
• 1985 Darwin's five theories of evolution. Pages 755-772 in The Darwinian Heritage (D. Kohn, Ed.) Princeton University Press.
• 1985 How biology differs from the physical sciences. Pages 43-63 in Evolution at a Crossroads: The New Biology and the New Philosophy of Science (D. J. Depew and B H Weber, Eds.) MIT Press, Cambridge.
• 1988 The why and how of species. Biology and Philosophy 3:431-441
• 1992 The idea of teleology. Journal of the History of Ideas 53:117-135
• 1994 with Walter J Bock. Provisional classifications v. standard avian sequences: Heurisitics and communication in ornithology. Ibis 136:12-18
• 1996 The autonomy of Biology: The position of biology among the sciences. Quarterly Review of Biology 71:97-106
• 2001 The philosophical foundations of Darwinism. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 145:488-495
• 2002 with Walter J Bock. Classifications and other ordering systems. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematic und Evolutionsforschung 40:1-25