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.
National Academy of Sciences. 2005. Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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