Systematics and the Origin of Species

On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary

Jody Hey, Walter M. Fitch, Francisco J. Ayala

382 pages, parution le 30/01/2006

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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.

L'auteur - Francisco J. Ayala

Francisco J. Ayala est professeur de biologie et de philosophie à l'université de Californie à Irvine, et membre de la National Academy of Sciences. Il a reçu, entre autres, la National Medal of Science et le prix Templeton 2010. Auteur de nombreux ouvrages, il s'intéresse particulièrement à la génétique évolutive et à la confrontation entre sciences et religion.

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Introductory essay : systematics and the future of biology
The genetic basis of reproductive isolation : insights from Drosophila
Inter-locus antagonistic coevolution as an engine of speciation : assessment with hemiclonal analysis
Chromosome speciation : humans, Drosophila, and mosquitoes
Developmental plasticity and the origin of species differences
Speciation in birds : genes, geography, and sexual selection
Critical review of host specificity and its coevolutionary implications in the fig/fig-wasp mutualism
Evolutionary animation : how do molecular phylogenies compare to Mayr's reconstruction of speciation patterns in the sea?
Mayr, Dobzhansky, and Bush and the complexities of sympatric speciation in Rhagoletis
On the origin of Lake Malawi cichlid species : a population genetic analysis of divergence
A multidimensional approach for detecting species patterns in Malgasy vertebrates
Examining bacterial species under the specter of gene transfer and exchange
Ernst Mayr and the modern concept of species
Decoding the genomic tree of life
Prospects for identifying functional variation across the genome
Genetics and genomics of Drosophila mating behavior
Genomes, phylogeny, and evolutionary systems biology

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Éditeur(s)	The National Academies Press
Auteur(s)	Jody Hey, Walter M. Fitch, Francisco J. Ayala
Parution	30/01/2006
Nb. de pages	382
Format	16 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	720g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780309095365
ISBN13	978-0-309-09536-5