1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956487203321

Autore

Crisci Jorge Victor

Titolo

Historical biogeography : an introduction / / Jorge V. Crisci, Liliana Katinas, Paula Posadas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2003

ISBN

9780674030046

0674030044

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Classificazione

RB 10486

Altri autori (Persone)

KatinasLiliana

PosadasPaula

Disciplina

578/.09

Soggetti

Biogeography - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Contents ; Introduction: What Is Historical Biogeography?; I. Methods in Historical Biogeography ; 1. Distribution Areas and Areas of Endemism; 2. Center of Origin and Dispersal; 3. Phylogenetic Biogeography; 4. Ancestral Areas; 5. Panbiogeography; 6. Cladistic Biogeography; 7. Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity; 8. Event-Based Methods; 9. Phylogeography; 11. A Comparison of Methods: The Case of the Southern Beeches; II. Topics in Historical Biogeography; 12. Molecular Phylogenies in Biogeography; 13. Biodiversity and Conservation Evaluations; 14. Species Introduction

Conclusion: A Conceptual Framework for the FutureAppendix A: Phylogeny; Appendix B: Software in Historical Biogeography; Glossary; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Though biogeography may be simply defined--the study of the geographic distributions of organisms--the subject itself is extraordinarily complex, involving a range of scientific disciplines and a bewildering diversity of approaches. For convenience, biogeographers have recognized two research traditions: ecological biogeography and historical biogeography. This book makes sense of the profound revolution that historical biogeography has undergone in the last two decades, and of the resulting confusion over its foundations, basic concepts, methods, and relationships to other disciplines of comparative biology. Using case studies, the authors explain and



illustrate the fundamentals and the most frequently used methods of this discipline. They show the reader how to tell when a historical biogeographic approach is called for, how to decide what kind of data to collect, how to choose the best method for the problem at hand, how to perform the necessary calculations, how to choose and apply a computer program, and how to interpret results.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967683503321

Autore

Ross W. D (William David), <1877-1971.>

Titolo

The right and the good / / W.D. Ross ; edited by Philip Stratton-Lake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press, 2002

ISBN

0-19-159833-X

9786611930547

1-281-93054-7

0-19-153096-4

Edizione

[[New ed.].]

Descrizione fisica

lviii, 183 p

Collana

British Moral Philosophers Ser.

Altri autori (Persone)

Stratton-LakePhilip

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Good and evil

Right and wrong

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- A note on the text -- Bibliography -- 1. THE MEANING OF 'RIGHT' -- II. WHAT MAKES RIGHT ACTS RIGHT? -- APPENDIX I. RIGHTS -- APPENDIX II. PUNISHMENT -- III. THE MEANING OF 'GOOD' -- IV. THE NATURE OF GOODNESS -- V. WHAT THINGS ARE GOOD? -- VI. DEGREES OF GOODNESS -- VII. MORAL GOODNESS -- Editor's Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- U -- V -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

The Right and the Good, a classic of twentieth-century philosophy by the great scholar Sir David Ross, is now presented in a new edition with a substantial introduction by Philip Stratton-Lake, a leading expert on Ross. Ross's book is the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral theory in British philosophy for much of the nineteenth



and early twentieth century. Intuitionism is now enjoying a considerable revival, and Stratton-Lakeprovides the context for a proper understanding of Ross's great work today.