Species and Systematics

The Species and Systematics series will investigate the theory and practice of systematics and taxonomy and explore their importance to biology in a series of comprehensive volumes aimed at students and researchers in biology and in the history and philosophy of biology. The book series will examine the role of the study of biological diversity at all levels of organization and focus on the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of research in biodiversity dynamics. The philosophical consequences of classification, integrative taxonomy and future implications of rapidly expanding data and technologies will be among the themes explored by this series. Approaches to topics in Species and Systematics may include detailed studies of systematic methods, empirical studies of exemplar taxonomic groups, and historical treatises on central concepts in systematics.

Species and Systematics Editorial Board

Sandra Carlson (University of California, Davis, USA)

Marcelo R. de Carvalho (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Malte C. Ebach (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Anthony C. Gill (The Macleay Museum, The University of Sydney, Australia)

David R. Maddison (Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA)

Ellinor Michel (The Natural History Museum, London, UK)

Olivier Rieppel (The Field Museum, Chicago, USA)

Sonal Singhal (California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA)

Catharine Sole (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

Felix Sperling (Strickland Museum, University of Alberta, Canada

Christiane Weirauch (University of California, Riverside, USA)

David M. Williams (The Natural History Museum, London, UK)

René Zaragüeta i Bagils (University of Paris, France)

Andy Brower

is a butterfly systematist and was a professor of entomology/zoology/biology for 22 years. He currently supervises the National Taxonomists for USDA-APHIS-PPQ- National Identification Services, and is a research associate of the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

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