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University of California Press
- Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: Species and Systematics
summary
Molecular studies reveal highly ordered geographic patterns in plant and animal distributions. The tropics illustrate these patterns of community immobilism leading to allopatric differentiation, as well as other patterns of mobilism, range expansion, and overlap of taxa. Integrating Earth history and biogeography, Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics is an alternative view of distributional history in which groups are older than suggested by fossils and fossil-calibrated molecular clocks. The author discusses possible causes for the endemism of high-level taxa in tropical America and Madagascar, and overlapping clades in South America, Africa, and Asia. The book concludes with a critique of adaptation by selection, founded on biogeography and recent work in genetics.
Table of Contents
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- TItle Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- 1. Evolution in Space
- pp. 1-58
- 2. Evolution in Time
- pp. 59-100
- 4. Biogeography of New World Monkeys
- pp. 145-202
- 5. Primates in Africa and Asia
- pp. 203-266
- 8. Distribution within the Hawaiian Islands
- pp. 355-406
- Glossary of Geological Terms
- pp. 455-458
- Bibliography
- pp. 459-534
- About the Author
- pp. 563-564
- Further Reading, Production Notes
- pp. 576-577
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520951808
Related ISBN(s)
9780520271968
MARC Record
OCLC
774290533
Pages
576
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No