The steadily rising flood of scientific publications makes it increasingly difficult for a scientist
to keep up with developments outside his own narrow area of specialization. The need for
surveys of selected areas of science has never been greater than today. The present work is
an attempt to summarize and review critically what we know about the biology and genetics
of animal species and their role in evolution. Friends have suggested that I go a step further
and incorporate the relevant information on plants, expanding this account into a" species�…

Representative of the international acclaim accorded Ernst Mayr's Animal Species and
Evolution, published in 1963, is Sir Julian Huxley's description of it as" a magistral book...
certainly the most important study of evolution that has appeared in many years--perhaps
since the publication of The Origin of Species." In his extraordinary book, Mayr fully
explored, synthesized, and evaluated man's knowledge about the nature of animal species
and the part they play in the process of evolution. In this long-awaited abridged edition�…