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... » 

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 published Systematics and the The Origin of Species, a seminal book of the modern theory of evolution. This book includes the 16 papers presented by distinguished evolutionists at the colloquium. «