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By National Academy of Sciences, Francisco J. Ayala, Walter M. Fitch, Jody Hey

ISBN-10: 0309095360

ISBN-13: 9780309095365

In December 2004, the nationwide Academy of Sciences subsidized a colloquium on "Systematics and the foundation of Species" to have fun Ernst Mayr's one hundredth anniversary and to discover present wisdom in regards to the foundation of species. In 1942, Ernst Mayr, one of many 20th century's maximum scientists, released "Systematics and the starting place of Species", a seminal publication of the fashionable idea of evolution, the place he complicated the importance of inhabitants edition within the figuring out of evolutionary technique and the beginning of latest species. Mayr formulated the transition from Linnaeus's static species inspiration to the dynamic species notion of the trendy conception of evolution and emphasised the species as a neighborhood of populations, the position of reproductive isolation, and the ecological interactions among species. as well as a previous essay by way of Edward O. Wilson, this ebook comprises the sixteen papers provided via distinctive evolutionists on the colloquium. The papers are prepared into sections masking the origins of species boundaries, the methods of species divergence, the character of species, the which means of "species," and genomic ways for realizing range and speciation.

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