evolutionary synthesis to integrate processes from developmental biology and macroevolutionary perspectives. Riedl and Michael Conrad in the 1970s were the first two scientists to propose explicit mechanisms for the evolution of evolvability. Education and teaching 1945: Riedl started studies in fine arts, medicine, anthropology but at the end he obtained a degree in Biology with specialization in zoology at the University of Vienna in 1951. 1956: assistant professor, University of Vienna 1960: State doctorate and professor at the University of Vienna 1967 guest professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1968: full professor und research professor of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina From 1971: chief of the Institute of Zoology and Temporary chief of the Institut of Human biology, both at the University of Vienna, and Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina 1983-1990: chief of the Institute of Zoology und Anthropology at the University of Vienna Works Riedl, R. (1978) Order in Living Organisms: A Systems Analysis of Evolution. New York: Wiley. Riedl, R. (1983) (ed.) Flora und Fauna des Mittelmeeres. Hamburg: P. Parey. Riedl, R. (1984) Biology of Knowledge: The Evolutionary Basis of Reason. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. See also Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Club of Vienna References External links Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (English) 1925 births 2005 deaths 20th-century Austrian zoologists Extended evolutionary synthesis