The Sackler Colloquium Systematics and the Origin of Species. On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary was held on December 16-18, 2004. The Colloquium celebrated the 100th birthday of the eminent evolutionist Ernst Mayr and the 62nd anniversary of the publication of his Systematics and the Origin of Species (1942), one of the four books often considered as the foundations of the modern theory of evolution. The Colloquium explored the main topics in Mayr's book and examined the same (and related) issues in the light of current science, although the focus was be on speciation, rather than on systematics.  

Colloquium papers are available for download on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) website.  Please click here.

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Session I: The Nature of Species Introduction and Chair: Francisco J. Ayala, University of California, Irvine	Speaker's Website
Jody Hey, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Gene Flow, Structured Populations, and Species Cohesion in the Cichlids of Lake Malaw	Presentation Speaker's Website
Allen Orr, University of Rochester Genetic Basis of Reproductive Isolation and of Species Difference	Presentation Speaker's Website
William Rice, University of California, Santa Barbara Natural Selection, Conflicts, Recombination and Speciation	Speaker's Website
Jeffrey Feder, University of Notre Dame Mayr, Dobzhansky, and Bush: A Golden Braid of Biogeography, Inversions, Clines and Sympatric Speciation	Presentation Speaker's Website
Session II: Functional Diversification Chair: James Lake, University of California, Los Angeles Scott V. Edwards, Harvard University Molecular Perspectives on Speciation Processes in Bird	Presentation Speaker's Website
Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Costa Rica Developmental Plasticity and Evolutionary Innovation	Presentation Speaker's Website
Trudy MacKay, North Carolina State University, Raleigh Genetics and Genomics of Drosophila Mating Behavio	Presentation Speaker's Website
Anthony Long, University of California, Irvine Functional Variation Across the Genome	Presentation Speaker's Website
Banquet Lecture Introduction: Marty Jane West-Eberhard, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Costa Rica	Speaker's Website
Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University The Future of Evolutionary Biology	Presentation Speaker's Website
Session III: Biodiversity, Systematics and Evolutionary Processes Chair: Jody Hey, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Steve Palumbi, Stanford University Phylogenies and Biodiversit	Presentation Speaker's Website
James Lake, University of California, Los Angeles Evolution of Diversity in Ancient Ecosystems	Speaker's Website
Monica Medina, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Genomes and Phylogeny	Presentation Speaker's Website
Kevin de Queiroz, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC Systematics and Species Concept	Presentation Speaker's Website
Session IV: Modes of Speciation Chair: Walter Fitch, University of California, Irvine Francisco J. Ayala, University of California, Irvine Speciation from Mosquitoes to Humans: Chromosomal Rearrangements and Genic Diversification	Presentation Speaker's Website
Anne Yoder, Yale University A Multidimensional View of Speciation in Lemurs and Other Malagasy Vertebrate	Presentation Speaker's Website
Carlos Machado, University of Arizona, Tucson Coevolution and Speciation in Figs and Fig Wasp	Presentation Speaker's Website
Howard Ochman, University of Arizona, Tucson The Boundaries of Bacterial Species in Light of Lateral Gene Transfer	Presentation Speaker's Website