Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary
In December 2004, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a colloquium on “Systematics and the Origin of Species” to celebrate Ernst Mayr’s 100th anniversary and to explore current knowledge concerning the origin of species. In 1942, Ernst Mayr, one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists, published Systematics and the Origin of Species, a seminal book of the modern theory of evolution, where he advanced the significance of population variation in the understanding of evolutionary...
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In December 2004, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a colloquium on “Systematics and the Origin of Species” to celebrate Ernst Mayr’s 100th anniversary and to explore current knowledge concerning the origin of species. In 1942, Ernst Mayr, one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists, published Systematics and the Origin of Species, a seminal book of the modern theory of evolution, where he advanced the significance of population variation in the understanding of evolutionary process and the origin of new species. Mayr formulated the transition from Linnaeus’s static species concept to the dynamic species concept of the modern theory of evolution and emphasized the species as a community of populations, the role of reproductive isolation, and the ecological interactions between species. In addition to a preceding essay by Edward O. Wilson, this book includes the 16 papers presented by distinguished evolutionists at the colloquium. The papers are organized into sections covering the origins of species barriers, the processes of species divergence, the nature of species, the meaning of “species,” and genomic approaches for understanding diversity and speciation.
1Introductory essay : systematics and the future of biology12The genetic basis of reproductive isolation : insights from Drosophila93Inter-locus antagonistic coevolution as an engine of speciation : assessment with hemiclonal analysis244Chromosome speciation : humans, Drosophila, and mosquitoes465Developmental plasticity and the origin of species differences696Speciation in birds : genes, geography, and sexual selection957Critical review of host specificity and its coevolutionary implications in the fig/fig-wasp mutualism1208Evolutionary animation : how do molecular phylogenies compare to Mayr's reconstruction of speciation patterns in the sea?1439Mayr, Dobzhansky, and Bush and the complexities of sympatric speciation in Rhagoletis10On the origin of Lake Malawi cichlid species : a population genetic analysis of divergence18211A multidimensional approach for detecting species patterns in Malgasy vertebrates12Examining bacterial species under the specter of gene transfer and exchange22913Ernst Mayr and the modern concept of species24314Decoding the genomic tree of life26715Prospects for identifying functional variation across the genome28616Genetics and genomics of Drosophila mating behavior30717Genomes, phylogeny, and evolutionary systems biology332
