The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

ISBN 0-674-63906-5. In 1939 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union. 1007/BF01640607.

Ernst Mayr approached the problem with a new definition for the concept of species. Ernst Walter Mayr (July 5 1904 – February 3 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.