Ernst Mayr

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ID86309
NOMBREErnst Mayr
NOMBRESErnst
APELLIDOMayr
FIRMAMAYR E
AFILIACIONESHarvard University Press
ORCID0000-0001-8402-5990
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS41
TOTAL DE CITAS124
TOTAL COMO AUTOR40
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1942
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H7

  • Digital Humanities and Distributed Cognition

    Open AccessFlorian Windhager, Ernst Mayr et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Analytics2024

    Digital humanists have often been criticized as too technology-driven and for a lack of theoretical work. In this paper, we discuss theories from Cognitive Science on the *extended mind*, which provide a productive framework to theorize the use of tools and technologies for the sake of cognitive self-enhancement. Viewed through this lens, humans continuously self-amplify their natural cognitive resources and processes by extending and offloading …

  • Orchestrating Overviews

    Open AccessFlorian Windhager, Saminu Salisu et al.ARTICLEOpen Library of Humanities2018Citada por: 1Referencias: 30

    In addition to providing pleasant and stimulating experiences, complex cultural collections can require significant amounts of cognitive work on the part of visitors. Whether collections are situated in physical spaces or presented via web-based interfaces, the sheer richness and diversity of artefacts and their associated information can frequently lead to cognitive overload and fatigue. In this article we explore visualization methods that can …

  • The Taxonomic Evaluation of Fossil Hominids

    Ernst MayrCHAPTERClassification and Human Evolution2017

    The classification of living human populations or of samples of fossil hominids is a branch of animal taxonomy. There is one practical difference between animal and hominid taxonomy. Hominid remains are of significance that even rather incomplete specimens may be of vital importance. The material of taxonomy consists of zoological objects. These objects are individuals or parts of individuals who, in nature, were members of populations. There hav…

  • Evolution und Die Vielfalt des Lebens

    Ernst Mayr, Ernst W Mayr et al.BOOKEvolution und Die Vielfalt des…2013

  • What Makes Biology Unique?

    Ernst Mayr, Ernst Mayr-undifferentiated et al.BOOKWhat Makes Biology Unique?2009

  • What Does It Take to Be an Adult in Austria

    Open AccessUlrike Sirsch, Eva Dreher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Research2009Citada por: 8Referencias: 2

    The present study examined the defining features of emerging adulthood, subjects' conceptions of the transition to adulthood, and the perceived adult status in Austria. The sample consisted of 775 subjects (226 adolescents, 317 emerging adults, 232 adults). Results showed that most Austrian emerging adults feel themselves to be between adolescence and adulthood. Emerging adults predominantly described this period as an age of possibilities and id…

  • Exploring the Borderlands

    JOE CAIN, Ernst MayrARTICLETransactions of the American…2004

    Joe Cain, Ernst Mayr, Exploring the Borderlands: Documents of the Committee on Common Problems of Genetics, Paleontology, and Systematics, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 94, No. 2 (2004), pp. i, iii-v, vii, ix-xlii, 1-17, 19-39, 41-107, 109-123, 125-133, 135-137, 139-151, 153-160

  • Darwin's Spectre

    Ernst MayrARTICLEIsis2000

  • What is a Species, and What is Not

    Open AccessErnst MayrARTICLEPhilosophy of Science1996Citada por: 16Referencias: 21

    I analyze a number of widespread misconceptions concerning species. The species category, defined by a concept, denotes the rank of a species taxon in the Linnaean hierarchy. Biological species are reproducing isolated from each other, which protects the integrity of their genotypes. Degree of morphological difference is not an appropriate species definition. Unequal rates of evolution of different characters and lack of information on the mating…

  • Reasons for the Failure of Theories

    Open AccessErnst MayrARTICLEPhilosophy of Science1994Referencias: 5

    A theory may be invalid, not owing to erroneous observations or the invocation of an inappropriate law, but because of the use of equivocal terms. This is demonstrated for Darwin's failed model of sympatric speciation through the principle of divergence

  • The advance of science and scientific revolutions

    Open AccessErnst MayrARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1994

    Scientific revolutions in biology do not conform to the description of such revolutions as given by T. Kuhn. Instead, several paradigms may coexist simultaneously for long periods of time, and succeeding paradigms are not necessarily incommensurable. Biological revolutions are not separated by long periods of normal science; rather, there are always minor revolutions and theory changes of various magnitude. Kuhn's theory is in good agreement with…

  • One Long Argument

    Valerie A Haines, Ernst MayrARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1992

  • The Idea of Teleology

    Ernst MayrARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1992Citada por: 15

    Perhaps no other ideology has influenced biology more profoundly than teleological thinking. In one form or another it was the prevailing world view prior to Darwin. (Indeed it is one of the relatively few world views seriously considered by western man.) Appropriately, the discussion of teleology occupies considerable space (10-14%) in several recent philosophies of biology.' Such a finalistic world view had many roots. It is reflected by the mi…

  • When is Historiography Whiggish

    Ernst MayrARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1990Citada por: 21

    Increasingly often in recent critiques of books and articles in of science an author is accused of having written history. Sometimes specific items are mentioned that are said to justify this label, but sometimes it would seem simply to document that critic does not like writings of author. No two people seem to use term in exactly same sense, nor would any two historians entirely agree exactly what is whiggish. One person's is another's revision…

  • Arguments on Evolution

    Ernst MayrARTICLEIsis1990

  • Toward a new philosophy of biology

    Ernst MayrBOOKToward a new philosophy of biology1989Citada por: 25

  • Bernhard Rensch. Biophilosophical Implications of Inorganic and Organismic Evolution . Essen

    Open AccessErnst MayrARTICLEPhilosophy of Science1986

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  • Evolutionary Theory

    Ernst MayrARTICLEIsis1986Citada por: 1

  • The death of darwin

    Open AccessErnst MayrARTICLERevue de Synthèse1986Citada por: 1

    In 1957 John Greene wrote The Death of Adam.In recent years he has seemed to want to prove the death of Darwin, as indicated by the preceding essay and other recent writings.Is there any substance to Greene's endeavor to demonstrate the obsolescence of Darwin's theories and ideas ?A Darwinian reading Greene's arguments is overcome by a feeling of frustration.There we have labored for the last 50 years to make Darwin's thought better known, and ha…

  • Joseph Gottlieb Kolreuter's Contributions to Biology

    Ernst MayrARTICLEOsiris1986

  • Dear Lord Rothschild

    Ernst MayrARTICLEIsis1984

  • How to Carry Out the Adaptationist Program?

    Ernst MayrARTICLEThe American Naturalist1983

    1. The adaptationist program attempts to determine what selective advantages have contributed to the shaping of the phenotype. 2. Evolutionary change falls far short of being a perfect optimization process. Stochastic processes and other constraints upon selection prevent the achievement of perfect adaptedness. Evolutionists must pay more attention to these constraints than they have in the past. However, as already stressed by Darwin (1859, p. 2…

  • Allgemeine Betrachtungen uber die Triebe der Thiere hauptsachlich uber ihre Kunsttriebe. Hermann Samuel Reimarus , Jurgen von Kempski

    Ernst MayrARTICLEIsis1983Citada por: 1

  • Geologen der Goethezeit . H. Prescher, D. Beeger

    Ernst MayrARTICLEIsis1982

  • Concordance to Darwin's Origin of Species, First Edition . Paul H. Barrett , Donald J. Weinshank , Timothy T. Gottleber

    Ernst MayrARTICLEIsis1982