This clearly written, nontechnical introduction to cladistic biogeography treats earth history and biohistory as interdependent and attempts to explain patterns of plant and ...

This book is a thought-provoking assessment of assumptions inhibiting progress in comparative biology. The volume is inspired by a list generated years earlier by Donn Rosen ...

Originally created to preserve a record of scientific samples, the black and white X-rays of fish at the Smithsonian Institution have emerged as astonishing works of art in ...

"The ichthyofauna of the high Andes is assumed to be of low taxonomic diversity. Only three fish genera, the killifish Orestias and the catfishes Astroblepus and Trichomycterus ...

Situated at the convergence of the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba's coastal waters are home to one of the most diverse fish faunas in the ...

Through case studies, this book makes sense of the profound revolution that historical biogeography has undergone in the last two decades, and of the resulting confusion over ...

To unravel the complex shared history of the Earth and its life forms, biogeographers analyze patterns of biodiversity, species distribution, and geological history. So far ...