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Ernst Mayr: the doyen of twentieth century evolutionary biology

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Hölldobler, B. Ernst Mayr: the doyen of twentieth century evolutionary biology. Naturwissenschaften 91, 249–254 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-004-0522-z

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