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Author Heads, Michael J.

Title Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics / Michael Heads.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 565 pages) : maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Species and systematics
Species and systematics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Evolution in space -- Evolution in time -- Evolution and biogeography of primates : a new model based on molecular phylogenetics, vicariance and plate tectonics -- Biogeography of New World monkeys -- Primates in Africa and Asia -- Biogeography of the Central Pacific : endemism, vicariance, and plate tectonics -- Biogeography of the Hawaiian Islands : the global context -- Distribution within the Hawaiian Islands -- Biogeography of pantropical and global groups -- Evolution in space, time, and form : beyond centers of origin, dispersal, and adaptation.
Summary '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. It discusses possible causes for the endemism of high-level taxa in tropical America and Madagascar.
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Subject Biogeography -- Tropics.
Biogeography.
Tropics.
Biology -- Classification -- Molecular aspects.
Biology -- Classification -- Molecular aspects.
Variation (Biology) -- Tropics.
Variation (Biology)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Heads, Michael J. Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520271968 (DLC) 2011016690 (OCoLC)726620632
ISBN 9780520951808 (electronic book)
0520951808 (electronic book)
9780520271968 (cloth alkaline paper)