"Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that……" — Ernst Mayr
"Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric."
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Ernst Mayr
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43 Quotes by Ernst Mayr
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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into…
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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
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All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they…
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I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
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On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as…
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Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.
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A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
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There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any…
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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population…
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if…
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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms…
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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object…
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My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
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It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why…
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only…
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Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues…
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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