Systematics and the Origin of Species

In December 2004, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a colloquiumon "Systematics and the Origin of Species" to celebrate Ernst Mayr''s100th anniversary and to explore current knowledge concerning the originof species. In 1942, Ernst Mayr, one of the twentieth century''s greatestscientists, published Systematics and the Origin of Species, a seminal book ofthe modern theory of evolution, whe...