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Bernhard Rensch
Bernhard Rensch
Born21 January 1900
Thale, Germany
Died4 April 1990 (1990-04-05) (aged 90)
NationalityGerman
Known forModern evolutionary synthesis
AwardsDarwin-Wallace Medal (Silver, 1958)
Scientific career
FieldsOrnithology

Bernhard Rensch (21 January 1900 – 4 April 1990) was a German evolutionary biologist and ornithologist who did field work in Indonesia and India. Starting his scientific career with pro-Lamarckian views, he shifted to selectionism and became one of the architects of the modern synthesis in evolutionary biology, which he popularised in Germany. Besides his work on how environmental factors influenced the evolution of geographically isolated populations and on evolution above the species level, which contributed to the modern synthesis, he also worked extensively in the area of animal behavior (ethology) and on philosophical aspects of biological science. His education and scientific work were interrupted by service in the German military during both World War I and World War II.

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Clade

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species into two distinct species, a concept Huxley borrowed from Bernhard Rensch. Many commonly named groups – rodents and insects, for example – are...

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Index of evolutionary biology articles

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Elephant cognition

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biologist Bernhard Rensch studied an elephant's ability to distinguish music, and in 1957 published the results in Scientific American. Rensch's test elephant...

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Julian Huxley

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Species complex

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species complex around one "representative" species. Popularized by Bernhard Rensch and later Ernst Mayr, with the initial requirement that species forming...

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German Zoological Society

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1949/50 Albrecht Hase 1951/52 Wulf Emmo Ankel (1897–1983) 1953/54 Bernhard Rensch (1900–1990) 1955/56 Otto Koehler (1889–1974) 1957/58 Curt Kosswig (1903–1982)...

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Amphidromus

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malacologist Paul Bartsch (1917, 1918, 1919) on the Philippine species, Bernhard Rensch (1932) on the Lesser Sunda Islands forms, and Tera van Benthem Jutting...

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List of ornithologists

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List of biologists

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Deaths in April 1990

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Salim Ali

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with many of the major German ornithologists of the time including Bernhard Rensch, Oskar Heinroth, Rudolf Drost and Ernst Mayr apart from meeting other...

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The eclipse of Darwinism

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evolution. Developments in genetics persuaded field naturalists such as Bernhard Rensch and Ernst Mayr to abandon neo-Lamarckian ideas about evolution in the...

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Erwin Stresemann

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History of evolutionary thought

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Character evolution

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refer to the result of cladogenesis, a concept Huxley borrowed from Bernhard Rensch. A clade is by definition monophyletic, meaning it contains one ancestor...

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January 1900

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Effective evolutionary time

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Genetics and the Origin of Species

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founders of the modern synthesis (with the exception of Simpson and Bernhard Rensch) met with historians of biology in a conference to evaluate their work...

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Albrecht Manegold

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for South African president Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday. 2007: Bernhard Rensch Prize for his dissertation work on phylogeny and evolution of Coraciiformes...

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