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Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Heads



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Autore: Heads Michael J Visualizza persona
Titolo: Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Heads Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (577 p.)
Disciplina: 578.0913
Soggetto topico: Biogeography - Tropics
Biology - Classification - Molecular aspects
Variation (Biology) - Tropics
Soggetto non controllato: african ecology
african species
allopatric speciation
animal distribution
animal taxa
animals and geography
asian ecology
asian species
biogeography
biological evolution
books for biology majors
darwin
earth history
ecology books
ecology reference
endemism
fossils
geographic patterns
madagascar ecology
mammal zoology
natural selection
science and evolution
south america ecology
south american species
theory of evolution
tropical america
tropical species
zoology books
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Evolution In Space -- 2. Evolution In Time -- 3. Evolution And Biogeography Of Primates: A New Model Based On Molecular Phylogenetics, Vicariance, And Plate Tectonics -- 4. Biogeography Of New World Monkeys -- 5. Primates In Africa And Asia -- 6. Biogeography Of The Central Pacific: Endemism, Vicariance, And Plate Tectonics -- 7. Biogeography Of The Hawaiian Islands: The Global Context -- 8. Distribution Within The Hawaiian Islands -- 9. Biogeography Of Pantropical And Global Groups -- 10. Evolution In Space, Time, And Form: Beyond Centers Of Origin, Dispersal, And Adaptation -- Glossary Of Geological Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About The Author -- Species And Systematics
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-36973-7
9786613369734
0-520-95180-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910789742403321
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Serie: Species and systematics.