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Book SynopsisMolecular studies reveal highly ordered geographic patterns in plant and animal distributions. This title discusses possible causes for the endemism of high-level taxa in tropical America and Madagascar, and overlapping clades in South America, Africa, and Asia.
Trade Review"[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." -- Brenden S. Holland, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii Frontiers Of Biogeography "[A] marvel... [Heads's] writing guides the reader to crisp understanding... It should be widely read." -- Gareth Nelson Systematic Biology "I cannot do better than to sum up Heads' book with the words Darwin used to praise Wallace's work on geographical distribution in 1876. This is a '... grand and memorable work, which will last for years as the foundation of all future treatises'." -- Peter J. James Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Evolution in Space Chapter 2. Evolution in Time Chapter 3. Evolution and Biogeography of Primates: A New Model Based on Molecular Phylogenetics, Vicariance and Plate Tectonics Chapter 4. Biogeography of New World Monkeys Chapter 5. Primates in Africa and Asia Chapter 6. Biogeography of the Central Pacific: Endemism, Vicariance and Plate Tectonics Chapter 7. Biogeography of the Hawaiian Islands: The Global Context Chapter 8. Distribution Within the Hawaiian Islands Chapter 9. Biogeography of Pantropical and Global Groups Chapter 10. Evolution in Space, Time, and Form: Beyond Centers of Origin, Dispersal, and Adaptation Glossary Bibliography
