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...Cowan said Mayr was "very surprised and thrilled." His family was very pleased with Mayr's latest accolade, Cowan added...
...Mayr will share the prize with John Maynard Smith of the University of Sussex, England and George C. Williams of the State University of New York. The three will split the $500,000 prize and will receive gold medals at a ceremony in Stockholm this September...
After graduating from the University of Berlin in 1926, Mayr traveled to New Guinea, where he studied birds. He continued his research when he became a professor at Harvard University...
Brian D. Farrell, Loeb associate professor of the natural science, said "reading [Mayr's] book as an undergraduate convinced me to be an evolutionary biologist. He is the father of evolutionary biology...
Farrell said that Mayr is best known for his allotropic model of speciation, which suggests that different species arise when a population is divided by geographical barriers...