On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe…

- Ernst Mayr

The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some 100 years…

- Ernst Mayr

The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhab…

- Ernst Mayr

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of org…

- Ernst Mayr

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

- Ernst Mayr

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply f…

- Ernst Mayr

On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week and then on …

- Ernst Mayr

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

- Ernst Mayr

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Mo…

- Ernst Mayr