Mayr

American  

[mahy-er] / ˈmaɪ ər /

noun

1. Ernst, 1904–2005, U.S. zoologist and evolutionary theorist, born in Germany.

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Mayr Scientific  

/ mī′ər /

1. German-born American zoologist who synthesized Gregor Mendel's theories of inheritance with Charles Darwin's natural selection theory to develop the concept of speciation, which expanded scientific understanding of the formation of species and how they adapt to their their environment.

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Example Sentences

Mayr - of the public prosecutor's office - said the exact sequence of events is not yet known, but the bodies were professionally hidden and not discovered during a previous house search.

From BBC

These ancient footprints trample the old view, proposed in the 1950s by the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, that no two hominin species overlapped in time and space, says William Harcourt-Smith, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History who wrote a commentary accompanying the new paper.

From Science Magazine

"The whole cytoplasm is nicely compartmentalized," Dr. Mayr says.

From Science Daily

TIS granules are a membrane-less cellular component Mayr's lab discovered in 2018.

From Science Daily

"And it was really striking to see that in each of these intracellular neighborhoods, very different types of mRNAs were being translated," Dr. Mayr says.

From Science Daily