Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics By: Michael Heads Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520271968, 0520271963 eText ISBN: 9780520951808, 0520951808 Edition: 1st Pages: 576 Format: EPUB Available from $ 85.00 USD SKU: 9780520951808 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. SKU: 9780520271968 Download now: https://ebookscoffee.sellpass.io/products/Molecular-Panbiogeography-of-the-Tropics
