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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

A Journal of Evolution

Published on behalf of the Linnean Society of London

Edited by:
J.A. Allen

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 23/39 Evolutionary Biology
Impact Factor: 2.019

The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society is a direct descendant of the oldest biological journal in the world, which published the epoch-making papers on evolution by Darwin and Wallace. The Journal specializes in evolution in the broadest sense and covers all taxonomic groups in all five kingdoms. It covers the whole range of techniques used to study evolution, including whole-organism, molecular, theoretical and practical.

The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society publishes papers concerned with the process of organic evolution in the broadest sense. It particularly welcomes contributions that illustrate some of the unifying concepts of evolutionary biology with evidence, either observational or theoretical, from the fields of genetics, systematics, biogeography, or ecology. The Biological Journal succeeded (in 1969) the Proceedings of the Society, the journal in which Darwin and Wallace published their seminal papers in 1858.

Also published on behalf of the Linnean Society: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society and Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

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Special Section - A Century of Evolution: Ernst Mayr (1904 - 2005)
Ernst Mayr has undoubtedly contributed to the ideas of modern biology throughout the course of his long and active academic life. On Friday 6th October 2006 the Linnean Society of London held a one day symposium to celebrate the contributions that Mayr made to so many aspects of evolutionary biology during his remarkable life. Eight invited contributors were asked to discuss aspects of their own work on evolution/systematics/philosophy that had some relationship to some of the ideas of Mayr.

The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society has recently published four peer-reviewed papers from the symposium. These four contributions reflect some of the most important areas to which Ernst Mayr contributed, and give some indication of the enormous scope of his interests.

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Online content now available back to Volume 1 (1969)
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