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Review title: Did Mayr author this book?
Product review: Ernst Mayr's reputation is such that we expect writings of only the highest quality. This book is disjointed, patronizing, and written professedly for the educated layman but with jargon and explanations that only a specialist would understand.What is unnerving is the lecture mode that the writer uses, asking questions and then answering them as a neophyte would do with his first book.Mayr "wrote" this book last year when he was 97 years old. I cheered for him as the poster boy for many of us elderly. His preface he seemingly wrote--it's clear. But his secret may be out when in his Acknowledgements he thanks the three people who "prepared the manuscript" and contributed in other ways.
