Systematics and the Origin of Species

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Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist is a book written by zoologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, first published in 1942 by Columbia University Press.[1] The book became one of the canonical publications on the modern synthesis and is considered to be exemplary of the original expansion of evolutionary theory.[2] The book is considered one of his greatest and most influential.[3]

Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist contains a reassessment of previous evidence regarding the mechanisms of biological evolution.

reproduction, taking into account ecology, geography, and life history; it remains an important and useful idea in biology, particularly for animal speciation.[2] Despite acceptance and approval of his species definition, his input did little to resolve the long-standing disagreements concerning the issue of species concepts.[5]

With his addition of the formulation of his species definition, Ernst Mayr was able to express the question of the species definition as a biological rather than topological issue[6] After the publication of his species concept, Mayr became a major figure in the biological as well as the philosophical components of the debate regarding the problem of species concepts.[7]

Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist was created after Ernst Mayr's Jesup lectures in

Evolutionary Synthesis.[8] These Jesup lectures by Ernst Mayr and Edgar Anderson were meant as a follow-up to Theodosius Dobhanzky's own Jesup lectures in 1936 which resulted in his book Genetics and the Origin of Species, published in 1937.[8][9] Edgar Anderson did not publish his talks from the 1941 Jesup lectures with Mayr.[8]

In December 2004 the

National Academy of Sciences held a colloquium in honour of Mayr's 100th birthday at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Science and Engineering in Irvine, California.[10] Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary was published by National Academies Press in 2005 in commemoration of this event.[10] The lectures published in this collection explore the main topics discussed in Ernst Mayr's Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist.[2] These topics include reproductive isolation, the modern species concept, genomics, and other related subjects within evolutionary biology.[10]

Contents

  1. The Methods and Principles of Systematics
  2. Taxonomic Characters and Their Variation
  3. Phenomena of Geographic Variation
  4. Some Aspects of Geographic Variation
  5. The Systematic Categories and the New Species Concept
  6. The Polytypic Species, in Nature and in Systematics
  7. The Species in Evolution
  8. Nongeographic Speciation
  9. The Biology of Speciation
  10. The Higher Categories and Evolution

References

  1. ^ Mayr E (1942). Systematics and the Origin of Species. New York: Columbia Univ. Press.
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  5. ^ a b De Queiroz K (October 2005). "13: Ernst Mayr and the Modern Concept of Species.". In Ayala FJ, Fitch WM, Hey J (eds.). Systematics and the origin of species: on Ernst Mayr's 100th anniversary. Washington DC: National Academies Press.
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  7. ^ Jody H, Fitch WM, Ayala FJ (2005). "Part III: The Nature of Species and the Meaning of Species". In Hey J, Fitch WM, Ayala FJ (eds.). Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary. Washington DC: The National Academies Press.
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  10. ^ a b c "Systematics and the Origin of Species. On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary". National Academy of Sciences Online. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
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