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The diversity of living forms and the unity of evolutionary processes are themes that have permeated the research and writing of Ernst Mayr, a Grand Master of evolutionary biology. The essays collected here are among his most valuable and durable: contributions that form the basis for much of the contemporary understanding of evolutionary biology.

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• General Introduction
• I Evolution
• Introduction
• Darwin Vindicated Basic Concepts of Evolutionary Biology
• The Evolution of Living Systems
• Typological versus Population
• Thinking Accident or Design
• The Paradox of Evolution Selection and Directional
• Evolution Population Size and Evolutionary
• Parameters From Molecules to Organic Diversity
• Sexual Selection and Natural Selection
• The Emergence of Evolutionary Novelties
• II Speciation
• Introduction
• Darwin and Isolation Darwin, Wallace, and the Origin of Isolating
• Mechanisms Karl Jordan on Speciation
• Sympatric Speciation Bird Speciation in the Tropics
• Change of Environment and Speciation
• Geographical Character Gradients and Climatic Adaptation
• III History of Biology
• Introduction
• Lamarck Revisited Agassiz, Darwin, and Evolution
• The Nature of the Darwinian
• Revolution Karl Jordan on the Theory of Systematics and Evolution
• Where Are We?
• The Recent Historiography of Genetics
• IV Philosophy of Biology
• Introduction Cause and Effect in Biology
• Explanatory Models in Biology
• Theory Formation in Developmental Biology
• Teleological and Teleonomic: A New Analysis
• V Theory of Systematics
• Introduction The Challenge of Diversity
• The Role of Systematics in Biology
• Theory of Biological Classification Cladistic Analysis or Cladistic Classification
• VI The Species
• Introduction Toward a Modern Species
• Definition Karl Jordan and the Biological
• Species Concept Species Concepts and Definitions
• Sibling or Cryptic Species among Animals
• The Biological Meaning of species
• VII Man
• Introduction
• Taxonomic Categories in Fossil Hominids
• VIII Biogeography
• Introduction What Is a Fauna?
• History of the North American Bird Fauna
• Inferences Concerning the Tertiary
• North American Bird Faunas
• The Origin and History of the Polynesian
• Bird Fauna Land Bridges and Dispersal
• Facilities Wallace's Line in the Light of Recent
• Zoogeographic Studies Fragments of a Papuan Ornithogeography
• The Ornithogeography of the Hawaiian Islands
• The Nature of Colonization of Birds
• IX Behavior
• Introduction Behavior and Systematics Behavior Programs and Evolutionary Strategies
• Index