Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:27th Jan '12
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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.
"[A] marvel... [Heads's] writing guides the reader to crisp understanding... It should be widely read." Systematic Biology "This book is a very interesting contribution to evolutionary biogeography." Qtly Review Of Biology "[An] important book and subject." -- Brenden S. Holland, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii Frontiers Of Biogeography "[A] marvel... [Heads's] writing guides the reader to crisp understanding... It should be widely read." -- Gareth Nelson Systematic Biology "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'." -- Peter J. James Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
ISBN: 9780520271968
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
Weight: 1179g
576 pages