Ernst Mayr, a U.S. evolutionary biologist credited for calling 'the Darwin of the 20th century,' died Thursday at the age of 100, Harvard University said. Bloomerg reports Mayr was called the 'greatest living evolutionary biologist' by Stephen Jay Gould, his late colleague at Harvard University. Mayr died at a retirement community in Bedford, Massachusetts, after a brief illness. He is survived by two daughters, five grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren. Mayr, who served as a zoology professor at Harvard since 1953, was considered one of the leading scientists in the field of evolution during his 80-year career. He is credited with provoking a resurgence of evolutionary biology in the 1940s and developing the definition of a biological species currently accepted by scientists. More
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