Systematics and the Origin of Species

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.

ISBN 0309095360   Pages 382 ISBN13 9780309095365 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher National Academies Press   Weight (grammes) 708 Imprint National Academies Press   Published in Washington Format Hardback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 28 Sep 2005   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress QH380.S97   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 576.8   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Introductory essay : systematics and the future of biology by Edward O. Wilson		1
2		The genetic basis of reproductive isolation : insights from Drosophila by H. Allen Orr		9
3		Inter-locus antagonistic coevolution as an engine of speciation : assessment with hemiclonal analysis by William R. Rice and Jodell E. Linder and Urban Friberg and Timothy A. Lew and Edward H. Morrow and Andrew D. Stewart		24
4		Chromosome speciation : humans, Drosophila, and mosquitoes by Francisco J. Ayala and Mario Coluzzi		46
5		Developmental plasticity and the origin of species differences by Mary Jane West-Eberhard		69
6		Speciation in birds : genes, geography, and sexual selection by Scott V. Edwards and Sarah B. Kingan and Jennifer D. Calkins and Christopher N. Balakrishnan and W. Bryan Jennings and Willie J. Swanson and Michael D. Sorenson		95
7		Critical review of host specificity and its coevolutionary implications in the fig/fig-wasp mutualism by Carlos A. Machado and Nancy Robbins and M. Thomas P. Gilbert and Edward Allen Herre		120
8		Evolutionary animation : how do molecular phylogenies compare to Mayr's reconstruction of speciation patterns in the sea? by Stephen R. Palumbi and H. A. Lessios		143
9		Mayr, Dobzhansky, and Bush and the complexities of sympatric speciation in Rhagoletis by Jeffrey L. Feder and Xianfa Xie and Juan Rull and Sebastian Velez and Andrew Forbes and Brian Leung and Hattie Dambroski and Kenneth E. Filchak and Martin Aluja		162
10		On the origin of Lake Malawi cichlid species : a population genetic analysis of divergence by Yong-Jin Won and Arjun Sivasundar and Yong Wang and Jody Hey		182
11		A multidimensional approach for detecting species patterns in Malgasy vertebrates by Anne D. Yoder and Link E. Olson and Carol Hanley and Kellie L. Heckman and Rodin Rasoloarison and Amy L. Russell and Julie Ranivo and Voahangy Soarimalala and K. Praveen Karanth and Achille P. Raselimanana and Steven M. Goodman		203
12		Examining bacterial species under the specter of gene transfer and exchange by Howard Ochman and Emmanuelle Lerat and Vincent Daubin		229
13		Ernst Mayr and the modern concept of species by Kevin de Queiroz		243
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