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| | Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Ernst Mayr |
 | | Mayr, the leading evolutionary biologist of his very long time, was an explorer, naturalist, ornithologist, philosopher, historian of science and also a Harvard professor. |
 | | Mayr was a bird-watcher from childhood, influenced by his father, Otto, a judge and keen amateur naturalist. |
 | | Mayr made a big impression on its administrators when he was taken on there for a year to catalogue the thousands of bird specimens collected during his South Seas expedition. |
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