Oh I Wish I Had an Ernst Mayr Winner

Ernst Mayr, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, has died at 100. Without Mayr’s work, Charles Darwin’s theories may have been selected for extinction. While that lazy ass Darwin sat around theorizing, Mayr used new findings in laboratory genetics with field work on animal populations and diversity in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to prove evolutionary theories. His work led to the formulation of the modern concept of species, showed that species can develop in isolation and spared Darwin from going down in history as some guy with a tortoise fetish. Mayr started his career as an ornithologist in the South Pacific, where after capturing more than 3,000 birds and skinning them for study, he ate them. Many of his early textbooks are half scholarly research, half cookbook, and he in his later years, he bragged about personally eating the last dodo, just because he could.