What Evolution Is

By Ernst Mayr. 2001

488 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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Citations in the corpus

• POLICE PROBLEMS: THE COMPLEXITY OF PROBLEM THEORY, RESEARCH AND EVALUATION (2003, background): “Pease (1998) identified the phenomenon of "virtual repeats," which occurs when offenders learn from successful attacks on one target and go on to attack nearby targets.”
• The Case for Inductive Theory Building† (2007, methodology): “One could show that induction was the method used by other famous scientists such as Einstein (2002: 238), Darwin (Mayr, 2001), and Galileo (Harriman, 2000a, 2000b, 2000c), but that is beyond the scope of this article.”
• The First Joke: Exploring the Evolutionary Origins of Humor (2006, background): “T. Dobzhansky, the pre-eminent geneticist, emphasized this point in his famous aphorism, “Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution” (as cited in Mayr, 2001, p. 39).”