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.
| 1 | Introductory essay : systematics and the future of biology | 1 |
| 2 | The genetic basis of reproductive isolation : insights from Drosophila | 9 |
| 3 | Inter-locus antagonistic coevolution as an engine of speciation : assessment with hemiclonal analysis | 24 |
| 4 | Chromosome speciation : humans, Drosophila, and mosquitoes | 46 |
| 5 | Developmental plasticity and the origin of species differences | 69 |
| 6 | Speciation in birds : genes, geography, and sexual selection | 95 |
| 7 | Critical review of host specificity and its coevolutionary implications in the fig/fig-wasp mutualism | 120 |
| 8 | Evolutionary animation : how do molecular phylogenies compare to Mayr's reconstruction of speciation patterns in the sea? | 143 |
| 9 | Mayr, Dobzhansky, and Bush and the complexities of sympatric speciation in Rhagoletis | |
| 10 | On the origin of Lake Malawi cichlid species : a population genetic analysis of divergence | 182 |
| 11 | A multidimensional approach for detecting species patterns in Malgasy vertebrates | |
| 12 | Examining bacterial species under the specter of gene transfer and exchange | 229 |
| 13 | Ernst Mayr and the modern concept of species | 243 |
| 14 | Decoding the genomic tree of life | 267 |
| 15 | Prospects for identifying functional variation across the genome | 286 |
| 16 | Genetics and genomics of Drosophila mating behavior | 307 |
| 17 | Genomes, phylogeny, and evolutionary systems biology | 332 |
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