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Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics

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University of California Press, Dec 3, 2011 - Science - 565 pages
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.
  

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Contents

1 Evolution in Space
1
2 Evolution in Time
59
A New Model Based on Molecular Phylogenetics Vicariance and Plate Tectonics ...
101
4 Biogeography of New World Monkeys
145
5 Primates in Africa and Asia
203
Endemism Vicariance and Plate Tectonics
267
The Global Context
313
8 Distribution within the Hawaiian Islands
355
9 Biogeography of Pantropical and Global Groups
407
Beyond Centers of Origin Dispersal and Adaptation
435
Glossary of Geological Terms
455
Bibliography
459
Index
535
About the Author
563
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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.

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