DARWIN IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY1

Abstract

There were many celebrations in 2009 of the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species. The Stony Brook symposium held in November 2009 included speakers and other participants from a diversity of disciplines and perspectives in evolution and related fields; the 22 chapters and eight commentaries in Evolution since Darwin are the result. As with most edited volumes, there is wide variation in scope, writing, and importance among the chapters. Yet, collec-tively, the separate contributions that make up this volume paint a vivid portrait of the dynamism and diversity of evolutionary biology, now and for the near-future.