Ernst Mayr, one of the true giants of science, is now 100 years old and still very active as a teacher and writer. In the latest issue of Science, he has a retrospective on his 80 years of work in evolutionary biology. He was one of the primary architects of the neo-Darwinian synthesis that united diverse and contradictory theories of evolution under one theory that has stood the tests of time. Three cheers for the grand old man of evolution. May we still be talking about his astounding body of work in another 100 years.
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