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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.

"[A] marvel... [Heads's] writing guides the reader to crisp understanding... It should be widely read."--Systematic Biology "This book is a very interesting contribution to evolutionary biogeography."--Qtly Review of Biology "[An] important book and subject."--Frontiers of Biogeography "[A] marvel... [Heads's] writing guides the reader to crisp understanding... It should be widely read."--Systematic Biology

ISBN: 9780520271968
ISBN-10: 0520271963
Series: Species and Systematics
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 576
Published: 4th January 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.2 x 16.2  x 3.458
Weight (kg): 1.176