Re: Ernst Mayr

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> : > http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2003/nov/feature1_031117.html
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> : > : Jois
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> : Thank you, Jois.  A wonderful article.
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> Yikes! Nearly a month and I'm still trying to read: What Evolution Is.  I
> like it, it is well written,  about 1/3 way through.   I'm making out my
> Christmas List, what's your favorite title by Ernst Mayr and maybe give a
> second choice, Michael.  (I'm guessing you and I are the only big time
Mayr
> fans.)  My Santa shops second hand bookstores so don't be concerned about
> year of pub. or in or out of print.  Thanks!
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> Jois

Hey, thanks, the only book I have is "Selected Essays: Evolution
and the Diversity of Life".  "Only" --as if it weren't big enough to
block up the car.  I have to admit that I haven't read most of it
though I pick it up from time to time.  If I could get any book
there is, I'd have to ask Santa for "Systematics and the Origin
of Species".  Aside from the fact that he's been doing interesting
science for most of the last century, he is also a very interesting
character.  What would you like to see under the tree?  :-)

I did get Velma Wallis' "Two Old Women".  Which is shaping
up nicely.  Sort of like reading mythology so far but promises
to get rather intense.  Just finished M.I. Finley's "The Portable
Greek Historian",  Beroul's "The Romance of Tristan", and still
slogging through Craig Stanford's "Significant Others".