• DOI:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1982.tb05483.x
Corpus ID: 27401899

SPECIATION AND MACROEVOLUTION

@article{Mayr1982SPECIATIONAM,
  title={SPECIATION AND MACROEVOLUTION},
  author={E. Mayr},
  journal={Evolution},
  year={1982},
  volume={36}
}

E. Mayr

Published 1982

Biology, Medicine

Evolution

Species and higher taxa represent, phenomenologically, two very different levels in the hierarchical organization of the living world. Ever since there has been a concept of evolution, there has been the problem how one can get from the species level to that of the higher categories. Darwin, the champion of gradualism, declared that it was a purely quantitative problem. If one would simply pile enough small differences on top of each other, one would eventually get something that is… CONTINUE READING

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