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Zusatztext "I cannot do better than to sum up Heads' book with the words Darwin used to praise Wallace's work on geographical distribution in 1876. This is a '. . . grand and memorable work! which will last for years as the foundation of all future treatises'." Informationen zum Autor Michael Heads is a former Senior Lecturer in Ecology at the University of the South Pacific. He is now an independent scholar living in New Zealand. Klappentext "An engaging attempt to simultaneously retain the best of several traditionally different approaches in historical biogeography! incorporating concepts and data from each into a new perspective on Croizat's vision of Earth and life evolving together."--Brett R. Riddle! University of Nevada! Las Vegas Zusammenfassung Molecular studies reveal highly ordered geographic patterns in plant and animal distributions. This title discusses possible causes for the endemism of high-level taxa in tropical America and Madagascar, and overlapping clades in South America, Africa, and Asia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Evolution in Space Chapter 2. Evolution in Time Chapter 3. Evolution and Biogeography of Primates: A New Model Based on Molecular Phylogenetics! Vicariance and Plate Tectonics Chapter 4. Biogeography of New World Monkeys Chapter 5. Primates in Africa and Asia Chapter 6. Biogeography of the Central Pacific: Endemism! Vicariance and Plate Tectonics Chapter 7. Biogeography of the Hawaiian Islands: The Global Context Chapter 8. Distribution Within the Hawaiian Islands Chapter 9. Biogeography of Pantropical and Global Groups Chapter 10. Evolution in Space! Time! and Form: Beyond Centers of Origin! Dispersal! and Adaptation Glossary Bibliography
