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Mayr and Grant articulated positions on species and speciation that had developed during and soon after the Modern Synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s, when modern evolutionary theory developed from a reconciliation of genetics, systematics, and paleontology.
Kimura's neutral theory of molecular evolution [4] had not yet been published when Mayr wrote, and had not been vindicated when Grant wrote, so genetic drift and a neutral (nonselectionist) interpretation of molecular data were still suspect.
(It became Eldredge and Gould's [3] theoretical foundation for punctuated equilibrium nine years after Mayr's book appeared.)
To appreciate the landmark status of these books, consider what has happened in speciation studies since Mayr and Grant published theirs.
Mayr and Grant wrote against a background that almost entirely lacked any mathematical theory of speciation (which I suspect neither of them would have drawn on even if it had been developed), any relevant molecular data (other than early allozyme studies by the time Grant published), and any rigorous phylogenetic methodology.