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I went to the Harvard MCZ one night to attend a guest lecture about Birds of Paradise, which are a showy group from New Guinea. I happened to sit right behind two of Harvard's most famous biologists, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson E. O. Wilson] (who wrote Sociobiology and invented Island Biogeography) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mayr Ernst Mayer] (considered the father of the evolutionary New Synthesis and the biological species concept.) Mayer was about 100 years old then, but his early work included a major expedition to New Guinea to collect and study birds, including Birds of Paradise. I've got a personal policy of never speaking to an important person unless I had something to say that I thought would interest them. Thus, while I'd spoken to Wilson a few times, I'd never introduced myself to Mayer. | I went to the Harvard MCZ one night to attend a guest lecture about Birds of Paradise, which are a showy group from New Guinea. I happened to sit right behind two of Harvard's most famous biologists, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson E. O. Wilson] (who wrote Sociobiology and invented Island Biogeography) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mayr Ernst Mayer] (considered the father of the evolutionary New Synthesis and the biological species concept.) Mayer was about 100 years old then, but his early work included a major expedition to New Guinea to collect and study birds, including Birds of Paradise. I've got a personal policy of never speaking to an important person unless I had something to say that I thought would interest them. Thus, while I'd spoken to Wilson a few times, I'd never introduced myself to Mayer. |