Ernst Mayr: the doyen of twentieth century evolutionary biology

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1. Zoologie II, Theodor Boveri-Institut, Am Hubland Biozentrum, 97074 , Wuerzburg, Germany Bert Hölldobler

1. Bert Hölldobler