German evolutionary biologist and ornithologist (1900–1990)
Bernhard Rensch
Bernhard Rensch
Born
21 January 1900
Thale, Germany
Died
4 April 1990 (1990-04-05) (aged 90)
Nationality
German
Known for
Modern evolutionary synthesis
Awards
Darwin-Wallace Medal (Silver, 1958)
Scientific career
Fields
Ornithology
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.
BernhardRensch (21 January 1900 – 4 April 1990) was a German evolutionary biologist and ornithologist who did field work in Indonesia and India. Starting...
Rensch is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: BernhardRensch (1900–1990), German evolutionary biologist and ornithologist Daniel...
and even-toed ungulates (such as cattle and deer). It is named after BernhardRensch, who proposed it in 1950. Schmalhausen's law, named after Ivan Schmalhausen...
species into two distinct species, a concept Huxley borrowed from BernhardRensch. Many commonly named groups – rodents and insects, for example – are...
Fontane stayed in Thale a number of times between 1868 and 1884. BernhardRensch (1900–1990), evolutionary biologist, zoologist, behavioral researcher...
biologist BernhardRensch studied an elephant's ability to distinguish music, and in 1957 published the results in Scientific American. Rensch's test elephant...
listed as Ernst Mayr, Theodosius Dobzhansky, George Gaylord Simpson, BernhardRensch, Ledyard Stebbins and the population geneticists J. B. S. Haldane,...
species complex around one "representative" species. Popularized by BernhardRensch and later Ernst Mayr, with the initial requirement that species forming...
malacologist Paul Bartsch (1917, 1918, 1919) on the Philippine species, BernhardRensch (1932) on the Lesser Sunda Islands forms, and Tera van Benthem Jutting...
plants BernhardRensch (1900–1990), German evolutionary biologist who searched for universal rules, such as Allen's Rule, Gloger's Rule and Rensch's rule...
with many of the major German ornithologists of the time including BernhardRensch, Oskar Heinroth, Rudolf Drost and Ernst Mayr apart from meeting other...
evolution. Developments in genetics persuaded field naturalists such as BernhardRensch and Ernst Mayr to abandon neo-Lamarckian ideas about evolution in the...
German scientists, including his most famous student Ernst Mayr and BernhardRensch. Stresemann had proposed that geographic isolation was key to the speciation...
biologist Ernst Mayr was influenced by the work of the German biologist BernhardRensch showing the influence of local environmental factors on the geographic...
refer to the result of cladogenesis, a concept Huxley borrowed from BernhardRensch. A clade is by definition monophyletic, meaning it contains one ancestor...
television to Australia; in Little Hulton, Lancashire, England (d. 1988) BernhardRensch, German evolutionary biologist; in Thale (d. 1990) Henry Somerset,...
them. Some aspects of the hypothesis are based on earlier studies. BernhardRensch, for example, stated that evolutionary rates also depend on temperature:...
founders of the modern synthesis (with the exception of Simpson and BernhardRensch) met with historians of biology in a conference to evaluate their work...
for South African president Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday. 2007: BernhardRensch Prize for his dissertation work on phylogeny and evolution of Coraciiformes...