The Society for the Study of Evolution is a professional organization of

evolutionary biologists Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes ( natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life fo ...

. It was formed in the

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in 1946 to promote

evolution Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation ...

and the integration of various fields of science concerned with evolution and to organize the publication of a scientific journal to report on new research on evolution across a variety of fields. The Society was established at a meeting in St. Louis on March 30, 1946. Fifty-seven scientists attended the meeting, which was chaired by Alfred E. Emerson.

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was elected as the Society's first President, with

E. B. Babcock Ernest Brown Babcock (July 10, 1877 – December 8, 1954) was an American plant geneticist who pioneered the under standing of plant evolution in terms of genetics. He is particularly known for seeking to understand by field investigations and e ...

, Emerson, and J. T. Patterson as his Vice-presidents and

Ernst Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His ...

as secretary. This society grew as an extension of the US National Research Council's Committee on Common Problems of Genetics and Paleontology (later renamed the Committee on Common Problems of Genetics, Paleontology and Systematics). The first annual meeting of the society was held in Boston, December 28–31, 1946. A grant from the

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led to the publication of the journal ''

Evolution Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation ...

''. Commonly known as 'evolution meeting,' the annual conference is often held together with the Society of Systematic Biologists and the

American Society of Naturalists The American Society of Naturalists was founded in 1883 and is one of the oldest professional societies dedicated to the biological sciences in North America. The purpose of the Society is "to advance and diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and o ...

. The society has an official journal ''

''. It was started in 1947 and is published by

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. In 2017, it launched a second journal ''Evolution Letters''.

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* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20081223025831/http://www.cce.umn.edu/conferences/evolution/ Evolution 2008br>Ernst Mayr's 'History of the Society for the Study of Evolution'
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