Here be dragons: how the study of animal and plant distributions revolutionized our views of life and Earth
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2009
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XXIII, 214 S. Ill., Kt. 23 cm |
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| adam_text | This is an account of how two theories,
vast in scope and great in explanatory power,
have helped us to understand the distribution
of living things on the planet.
For centuries, as explorers travelled to
new shores and brought back specimens
and accounts of the wildlife, people marvelled
at the strange arrangements of animals and
plants. Why no polar bears in Antarctica?
Why have marsupials prospered in Australia
and New Guinea while placentals dominate
everywhere else? Why so very many species
of the little birds known as honeycreepers
on the Hawaiian islands? Among those who
became fascinated by these questions were
Charles Darwin and Alfred
Russel
Wallace,
who between them established the field of
biogeography. Evolution was to explain much
of the puzzle, but it could only be solved
fully when combined with plate tectonics.
In this fascinating account, Dennis McCarthy
weaves together the rich and constantly
changing tapestry formed by life on a
dynamic planet. It is a tale of vast migrations,
the breakup of
supercontinents,
the opening
and closing of new seaways, the decline and
disappearance of whole faunas, and the power
of geology to fuel the engine of evolution.
IMAGE 1
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS XI
PREFACE: THAT GRAND SUBJECT
BIOGEOGRAPHY AS THEFOUNTAINHEAD OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AND THE
UNIFYING THEORY OF LIFE AND EARTH XV
1. GALAPAGAN EPIPHANY: 1
HOW THE DISTRIBUTIONS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS LED DARWIN TO THE THEORY OF
EVOLUTION
2. THE MESOSAURUS PROBLEM: 20
HOW FOSSIL LOCATIONS HELPED REVOLUTIONIZE OUR VIEW OF EARTH HISTORY
3. PYGMY MAMMOTHS AND MYSTERIOUS ISLANDS: 40
WHY THE GEOGRAPHY OF CERTAIN ISLAND GROUPS, LIKE HAWAII, GALAPAGOS, AND
THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, HAS TURNED THEM INTO A CAULDRON OF EVOLUTIONARY
CATALYSTS
4. THE VOLCANIC RING THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: 70
HOW EVOLUTION AND PLATE TECTONICS HAVE OPERATED IN CONCERT TO GOVERN THE
MAJOR BIOTIC PATTERNS AND PRODUCE THE EARTH S MOST FASCINATING CREATURES
IN THE MOST EXOTIC LOCALES
5. THE BLOODY FALL OF SOUTH AMERICA AND THE LAST
OF THE TRIASSIC BEAK-HEADED REPTILES: 94 SOUTH AMERICA, AUSTRALIA, AND
NEW ZEALAND AS SANCTUARIES FOR LIVING FOSSILS
IX
IMAGE 2
CONTENTS
6. ENCHANTED WATERS: 118
BIOGEOGRAPHY AMONG THE LIFE AQUATIC
7. THE BATTLE OVER EDEN: 145
THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE BIOGEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE
8. THE GRAND COALESCENCE OF LIFE AND EARTH: 181
THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
ENDNOTES 195
BIBLIOGRAPHY 205
INDEX 207
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