Society for the Study of Evolution
The Society for the Study of Evolution ( SSE) is a company incorporated in the U.S. in 1946 Association of biologists, whose aim is to promote the study of the evolution of organisms. This association of professional scientists, the field was established evolutionary biology.
History of SSE
On behalf of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS), the biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky 1939 organized a series of lectures on the topic of speciation. On this occasion, met the " architects " of the synthetic theory, Dobzhansky, Julian Huxley and Ernst Mayr and agreed to found a society for the study of speciation, which could be achieved by 1940. Due to the Second World War, the project did not progress; Then in 1946, this concept was taken up in a new form. On March 30, 1946, the Society for the Study of Evolution was founded in St. Louis, Missouri ( USA) under the direction of Ernst Mayr. The first document was signed by Mayr, Dobzhansky, among others important biologists and is still in the archives of cost. End of 1946, the new journal Evolution was from the SSE for the first time - International Journal of Organic Evolution issued, bringing the evolutionary biology was established as a scientific discipline.
Program of SSE
As Ernst Mayr has pointed out, had been planned in founding the Society for the Study of Evolution ( SSE) to join the hitherto unorganized studies on the phylogeny of organisms, and based on the synthetic theory to promote systematic research on organismal evolution. Still bears the SSE her program in the subtitle - this association mostly active at universities scientists pursuing the agenda of a promotion of the study of organic evolution, ie it comes to the targeted promotion of the study of the evolution of organisms. With the establishment of the journal Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution (founding Editor: E. Mayr), was an important magazine launched since the publication of her first book (Vol. 1, 1946) until today (Vol. 67, 2013 ) plays a central role in the evolutionary sciences. Until the mid- 1940s, evolutionary biology research have been to numerous magazines distributed (eg the biological Zentralblatt continued as a Theory in Biosciences).
Related organization
Forty years after the founding of the SSE and establishment of the scientific discipline evolutionary biology, the European Society for Evolutionary Biology ( ESEB ) was founded in 1987. The ESEB belonged in 2013 to approximately 1600 members. The objectives were summarized as follows: support for scientific studies to organismic evolution and integration of those scientific fields that are directly related to the subject of evolution, such as genetics, ecology, developmental biology. The ESEB publishes its own journal, the Journal of Evolutionary Biology and regularly hosts "Evolution meetings " that take place each in a different country in Europe.