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Author Humphries, C. J. (Christopher John), 1947-

Title Cladistic biogeography : interpreting patterns of plant and animal distributions / Christopher J. Humphries and Lynne R. Parenti
Edition Second edition
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [1999]
©1999

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 MELB  578.012 Hum/Cbi 1999  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 187 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Series Oxford biogeography series ; no. 12
Oxford monographs on biogeography ; no.12
Contents 1. Historical biogeography -- 2. Methodological developments -- 3. The real world -- 4. A new view of the world
Summary The distribution and classification of life on earth has long been of interest to biological theorists, as well as to travellers and explorers. Cladistic biogeography is the study of the historical and evolutionary relationships between taxa, based on their particular distribution patterns across the earth. Analysis of the distribution patterns of the taxa in different areas of the world can tell us how the areas are related, what regions or larger groups of areas exist, and what their shared history might be. Cladistic Biogeography (second edition) provides a concise exposition of the history, methods, applications of, and prospects for cladistic biogeography, together with a comprehensive bibliography
Notes Glossary: p. [171]-176
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-169) and indexes
Subject Biogeography.
Cladistic analysis.
Author Parenti, Lynne R.
LC no. 98047313
ISBN 0198548184 (hbk.)