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Bernhard Rensch (21 janvier 1900 - 4 avril 1990) est un biologiste allemand principalement connu pour appartenir au petit groupe de scientifiques ayant, au cours des années 1930 et 1940, élaboré la théorie synthétique de l'évolution.
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.
La cladogenèse, terme popularisé par Bernhard Rensch, désigne le processus évolutif aboutissant à l'apparition de nouvelles espèces par la scission d'une lignée ancestrale en au moins deux lignées descendantes [1].
Rensch's early studies concentrated on the zoogeographical characteristics of speciation, finding in the geographic range patterns of polytypic and incipient species clues that shed light on how climate and other factors influenced evolution.
13 août 2008 · Bernhard Rensch was, arguably, one of the most prominent and controversial figures on the international scene of what is known as the Modern or Evolutionary Synthesis. On the one hand, due to the efforts of Ernst Mayr (1904–2005) and professional historians of science (e.g., Mayr and Provine 1980 ; Junker 2004 ), Rensch became the figurehead ...
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. Bernhard Rensch, a Corresponding Fellow of the AOU since 1932 and an Honorary Fellow. since 1975, died on 4 April 1990, two months after his 90th birthday (21 January).
Bernhard Rensch. Toward the end of the 1930s, Bernhard Rensch (1900-1990) turned from Lamarckism and orthogenesis to selectionism and became one of the key figures in the making of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution (STE). He contributed to the Darwinization of biological systematics, the criticism of various anti-Da …
