Prepared by:

Editorial Chair:

Douglas J. Futuyma (SUNY-Stony Brook)

Organizational Chair:

Thomas R. Meagher (Rutgers University)

Steering Committee:

Michael J. Donoghue (Harvard University)

Charles H. Langley (University of California-Davis)

Linda Maxson (University of Iowa)

Working Group:

Albert F. Bennett (University of California-Irvine)

H. Jane Brockmann (University of Florida)

Marcus W. Feldman (Stanford University)

Walter M. Fitch (University of California-Irvine)

Laurie R. Godfrey (University of Massachusetts)

James Hanken (University of Colorado)

David Jablonski (University of Chicago)

Carol B. Lynch (University of Colorado)

Leslie Real (Indiana University)

Margaret A. Riley (Yale University)

J. John Sepkoski, Jr. (University of Chicago)

Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis (University of Florida)

Under the sponsorship of:

The A. P. Sloan Foundation

The National Science Foundation