Tupper Seminar Bambi Seminar Arrivals
Tupper seminar Tue, Feb 8 is Carnival Day. There will be no seminar. Bambi seminar Thu, Feb 10, Bambi seminar speaker will be John Christy, STRI Social monogamy in a simultaneous STRI news Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá www.stri.org February 4, 2005 hermaphrodite Ernst Mayr, 1904-2005 Arrivals Professor Ernst Mayr, 100, During his life he authored 45 Ellen Andresen, UNAM, legendary zoologist, the leading books and over 700 scientific Mexico, Jan 31 - Mar 31, to do evolutionary biologist of our papers, received 16 honorary research with Susan Laurance era considered the “the Darwin doctorates from Sweden, on the effects of hunting on of the 20th century”, died yes- England, Germany, France, dung beetles populations, at terday morning peacefully, near Australia, Canada, Italy, and the Gamboa. his home in Bedford, Massa- US. He was the recipient of chusetts. Mayr was Harvard more than 30 special awards Jacqueline Miller, University of University Alexander Agassiz including the National Medal of Toronto, Canada, Feb 5-25, to Professor of Zoology, Emeri- Science in 1964, the Darwin study the phylogeny, function tus, and a good friend of the Medal in 1984, and the Japan and form: the evolution of Smithsonian Institution and Prize in 1994. He received the acoustic communication in STRI. Balzan Prize in 1983 at age 78, Peromyscine rodents, in Mayr was born in 1904 in the International Prize for Darien. Germany. At the age of 21, he Biology which he won in 1994 mentor to Mary Jane West- received a Ph.D. from the Uni- at age 89, and the 1999 Eberhard, and he influenced the Yvonne Zimmerman, versity of Berlin, where he Crafoord Prize.
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