This special issue of Acta Biotheoretica grows out of a small conference on ''Systematics, Darwinism, and the Philosophy of Science'' held at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) in the Fall of 2006. We asked the conference attendees and other experts to submit papers exploring issues emerging around contemporary biological systematics and Darwinism. Following common usage, we construe systematics as the research field engaged in classifying and naming organisms; we understand Darwinism (roughly: evolutionary biology), as the set of disciplines that provide historical, selective, and perhaps other types of explanations for the origin and nature of parts and characters (from genetic- molecular to behavioral-cognitive) of hierarchically arranged taxa. We are extremely grateful to the 12 authors, who exhibit a broad range of deep expertise and creativity, in both biological and philosophical matters. In order to publish this large number of contributions, we divide them into two groups: ''From a Philosophical Point of View'' and ''From a Biological Point of View.'' Each grouping includes a general

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社论：系统学、达尔文主义和科学哲学

Acta Biotheoretica 的这一特刊源于 2006 年秋季在墨西哥国立自治大学 (UNAM) 举行的关于“系统学、达尔文主义和科学哲学”的小型会议。我们询问了与会者和其他人专家提交论文，探讨围绕当代生物系统学和达尔文主义出现的问题。按照惯例，我们将系统学解释为从事生物分类和命名的研究领域；我们将达尔文主义（大致上：进化生物学）理解为一组学科，为分层排列的分类群的部分和特征（从遗传分子​​到行为认知）的起源和性质提供历史的、选择性的，也许还有其他类型的解释. 我们非常感谢 12 位作者，他们在生物学和哲学问题上表现出广泛的深厚专业知识和创造力。为了发表如此大量的贡献，我们将它们分为两组：“从哲学的观点”和“从生物学的观点”。每组包括一个一般性的