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Nature 433, 700-701 (17 February 2005) | doi:10.1038/nature03435; Published online 16 February 2005

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Obituary:  Ernst Mayr (1904–2005)

Jared Diamond1

One Sunday in 1953, my father, a physician and haematologist at Harvard University, invited a newly recruited colleague to lunch at our house. Dad had just launched a study of possible associations between human blood groups and diseases with him.

  1. Jared Diamond is in the Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1524, USA.
    e-mail: Email: jdiamond@geog.ucla.edu

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