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What is the title of Mayr's 1942 book?

  • Systematics and the Origin of Species

  • The Origin of Species

  • The Selfish Gene

  • The Extended Phenotype

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"Systematics and the Origin of Species" is the title of Ernst Mayr's influential 1942 book. This seminal work revolutionized the field of systematics by synthesizing Darwin's theory of evolution with the principles of genetics and population biology. Mayr argued that species are not static entities but rather dynamic populations that evolve over time through natural selection.
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