Word: mayr
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Romer's text, "The Vertebrate Body," is the "standard, most widely used one in the field," Mayr said. Romer had "the remarkable ability of making his subject come alive, though comparative anatomy can be somewhat dry," he said...
...Permian period of vertebrate evolution, some 200 to 225 million years ago, was Romer's chief interest for over half a century. Romer had just completed a book mapping the Permian fossil areas in Texas before his death, Ernst Mayr, professor of Zoology, said yesterday...
...Mayr Wins National Medal
...Ernst Mayr, director and professor of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, received one of the six 1970 National Medal of Science Awards for his contributions to systematics, bio-geography, the study of birds, and the evolution of animal populations...
...Williamson '20, Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court; Justin Kaplan '45, biographer of Mark Twain, winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for biography: Leroy S. Rouner '53, author. teacher, and scholar in the Philosophy of Religion: Eugene G. h Rocow, professor of Chemistry, retiring this year: and Ernst Mayr, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, winner of the National Medal for Science this year...