Systematics and the Origin of Species : On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary Hardback

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. Table of ContentsFront Matter1 Introductory Essay: Systematics and the Future of Biology--EDWARDO.

WILSONPart I--THE ORIGINS OF SPECIES BARRIERS: 2 The Genetic Basis ofReproductive Isolation: Insights from Drosophila--H.

ALLEN ORR3 Inter-Locus Antagonistic Coevolution as an Engine of Speciation:Assessment with Hemiclonal Analysis--WILLIAM R.

RICE, JODELL E. LINDER, URBAN FRIBERG, TIMOTHY A. LEW, EDWARD H. MORROW, AND ANDREWD. STEWART4 Chromosome Speciation: Humans, Drosophila, andMosquitoes--FRANCISCO J.

AYALA AND MARIO COLUZZI5 Developmental Plasticity and the Origin of SpeciesDifferences--MARY JANE WEST-EBERHARDPart II--DISCERNING RECENT DIVERGENCE: 6 Speciation in Birds:Genes, Geography, and Sexual Selection--SCOTT V.

EDWARDS, SARAH B. KINGAN, JENNIFER D. CALKINS, CHRISTOPHER N. BALAKRISHNAN, W. BRYANJENNINGS, WILLIE J. SWANSON, AND MICHAEL D. SORENSON7 Critical Review of Host Specificity and Its CoevolutionaryImplications in the Fig/Fig-Wasp Mutualism--CARLOS A.

MACHADO,NANCY ROBBINS, M. THOMAS P. GILBERT, AND EDWARD ALLEN HERRE8 Evolutionary Animation: How Do Molecular Phylogenies Compare toMayr's Reconstruction of Speciation Patterns in the Sea?--STEPHENR.

PALUMBI AND H. A. LESSIOS9 Mayr, Dobzhansky, and Bush and the Complexities of SympatricSpeciation in Rhagoletis--JEFFREY L.

FEDER, XIANFA XIE, JUAN RULL,SEBASTIAN VELEZ, ANDREW FORBES, BRIAN LEUNG, HATTIE DAMBROSKI,KENNETH E.

FILCHAK, AND MARTIN ALUJA10 On the Origin of Lake Malawi Cichlid Species: A PopulationGenetic Analysis of Divergence--YONG-JIN WON, ARJUN SIVASUNDAR,YONG WANG, AND JODY HEYPart III--THE NATURE OF SPECIES AND THE MEANING OF ''SPECIES'': 11A Multidimensional Approach for Detecting Species Patterns inMalagasy Vertebrates--ANNE D.

YODER, LINK E. OLSON, CAROL HANLEY,KELLIE L. HECKMAN, RODIN RASOLOARISON, AMY L. RUSSELL, JULIERANIVO, VOAHANGY SOARIMALALA, K. PRAVEEN KARANTH, ACH12 Examining Bacterial Species Under the Specter of Gene Transferand Exchange--HOWARD OCHMAN, EMMANUELLE LERAT, AND VINCENT DAUBIN13 Ernst Mayr and the Modern Concept of Species--KEVIN DE QUEIROZPart IV--GENOMIC APPROACHES AND NEW INSIGHTS ON DIVERSITY: 14Decoding the Genomic Tree of Life--ANNE B.

SIMONSON, JACQUELINE A. SERVIN, RYAN G. SKOPHAMMER, CRAIG W. HERBOLD, MARIA C. RIVERA, ANDJAMES A. LAKE15 Prospects for Identifying Functional Variation Across theGenome--STUART J.

MACDONALD AND ANTHONY D. LONG16 Genetics and Genomics of Drosophila Mating Behavior--TRUDY F.

C. MACKAY, STEFANIE L. HEINSOHN, RICHARD F. LYMAN, AMANDA J. MOEHRING,THEODORE J. MORGAN, AND STEPHANIE M. ROLLMANN17 Genomes, Phylogeny, and Evolutionary Systems Biology--MONICAMEDINAIndex