Character introduction
Although Erne Meer (1904.7.5-2005.2.3) did not have a global sailing like Darwen, but the environmental difficult New Guinea and Solomon Islands He has benefited a lot. It is these field visits to make him a lot of new concepts and theories in birds, classification, animal geography and evolution, such as "species", "founder principles", "intra-peripheral isolation", and A series of academic monographs were published successively.
Characters
Meer is earliest is a birdologist, then turned into an evolutionary biologist, and then became a scientist history. He began academic career in the American Nature Museum in New York City. There he describes 26 new species, as well as 445 new bird subspets. Many of them are collected during the expedition process of the South Pacific. His research suggests that the new species appear from the quarantine population as Charles Darwen believes. In 1942, he published a groundbreaking book "classification and species origin", using the 20th century perspective, the difference in Darwin, almost at the same time, Meer Assist in establishing an evolutionary research society and its publication "evolution" This magazine provides a forum for biologists with similar views.
49 years old, Meer moved to Harvard University Comparison Biology Museum (MCZ). There, he established a field research station and expanding the museum research facility. During his supporting faculty, he began to study other fields and focused on scientific history and scientific philosophy. In 1975, he retired from the museum. After 7 years, he wrote a book "Development of Biological Thoughts". This book covers the history, problems and concepts of biology. Meer refused to enter the computer era, he has always insisted on the way.
It is Mile to define species into a group of individuals who can reproduce each other, and their individuals other than this group cannot reproduce the descendants. This concept has led to the birth of a concept, that is, when an existing species is separated into two populations, the differences between them have gradually increased to the extent that cannot be propagated, and the new species is born. This is an answer to a biological puzzle of Charles Darwin.
Publishing Book
Honor Award
The most famous among the 33 awards he won The honors include the most precious three awards in the field of biology: 1983 Balzan Awards, 1994 (Japan) International Biology Award and 1999 Crafoord Award. He has also obtained a national science medal in 1970. Mile died in a retired community in Bedford, Massachusetts on February 3, when he was a comprehensive analysis of Darwin's theory.
Social evaluation
Harvard University James Hanken said that Meore has some disputes about the theory of species. But no one doubts that he is a genius. "He has a deep opinion of biology and especially about birds. In addition, "he is an outstanding supporter of the Natural Museum."