Panbiogeography: Or, an Introductory Synthesis of Zoogeography, Phytogeography, and Geology, with Notes on Evolution, Systematics, Ecology, Anthropology, Etc, Volume 2, Part 1author, 1958 - Biogeography |
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Page 65
... Galapagos and the lands generally around the Caribbeans . These two main channels are both standard , very freely connected and very ancient , and neither one is conducive to distribution that masses on the Pacific ; ii ) To within ...
... Galapagos and the lands generally around the Caribbeans . These two main channels are both standard , very freely connected and very ancient , and neither one is conducive to distribution that masses on the Pacific ; ii ) To within ...
Page 66
... Galapagos as well ) insured “ giant " Testudo a still higher rate of survival than ever did the continental masses . This is of course not what islands offer to non - marginal forms of life which readily become there extinct , but is ...
... Galapagos as well ) insured “ giant " Testudo a still higher rate of survival than ever did the continental masses . This is of course not what islands offer to non - marginal forms of life which readily become there extinct , but is ...
Page 68
... Galapagos ) offered refuge to turtles of the " giant " kind , such as , finding lesser opportunity for survival on the conti- nents to repeat — became extinct in Egypt , Northwestern India , etc. , at different times during the Tertiary ...
... Galapagos ) offered refuge to turtles of the " giant " kind , such as , finding lesser opportunity for survival on the conti- nents to repeat — became extinct in Egypt , Northwestern India , etc. , at different times during the Tertiary ...
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