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Cladistic Biogeography 2nd Edition: Interpreting Patterns of Plant and Animal Distributions

¹ L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

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Cladistic Biogeography, 2^nd Edition: Interpreting Patterns of Plant and Animal Distributions, Christopher J. Humphries and Lynne R. Parenti, 1999, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 187 p. (Hardcover $65.00) ISBN: 0-19-854818-4.

Four chapters, each written as a separate paper with introduction: (I) Historical Biogeography, (II) Methodological Developments, (III) The Real World, and (IV) A New View of the World.

This book is an excellent introduction for the student who wishes to embark on the rather arduous trail of what has become of modern biogeography The authors have produced a fairly comprehensive, yet readable coverage of the various aspects of cladistic biogeography as it is now practiced. The historical perspective on the contributions of authors . . . [Full Text of this Article]