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Frontiers of biogeography
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ISSN: 19486596


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Ancestors : the hard evidence : proceedings of the symposium, April 6-10, 1984, New York to mark the opening of the exhibition "Ancestors : four million years of humanity"
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ISBN: 0845102494 9780845102497 Year: 1985 Publisher: New York Liss

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Principles of human evolution : a core textbook
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ISBN: 0865425426 9780865425422 Year: 1998 Publisher: Malden, Mass. Blackwell Science


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The Origins of modern humans : a world survey of the fossil evidence
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ISBN: 0845102338 9780845102336 Year: 1984 Publisher: New York A.R. Liss

The geographic mosaic of coevolution
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ISBN: 0226797627 0226797619 1299730736 022611869X 9780226118697 9780226797618 9780226797625 Year: 2005 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Coevolution-reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species driven by natural selection-is one of the most important ecological and genetic processes organizing the earth's biodiversity: most plants and animals require coevolved interactions with other species to survive and reproduce. The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution analyzes how the biology of species provides the raw material for long-term coevolution, evaluates how local coadaptation forms the basic module of coevolutionary change, and explores how the coevolutionary process reshapes locally coevolving interactions across the earth's constantly changing landscapes. Picking up where his influential The Coevolutionary Process left off, John N. Thompsonsynthesizes the state of a rapidly developing science that integrates approaches from evolutionary ecology, population genetics, phylogeography, systematics, evolutionary biochemistry and physiology, and molecular biology. Using models, data, and hypotheses to develop a complete conceptual framework, Thompson also draws on examples from a wide range of taxa and environments, illustrating the expanding breadth and depth of research in coevolutionary biology.


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Continuity or replacement : controversies in Homo sapiens evolution : selected papers from the symposium on controversies in Homo sapiens evolution, Zagreb, July 1988
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ISBN: 9061911494 9789061911494 9781003078968 1003078966 9781000130959 1000130959 9781000151374 1000151379 9781000108224 1000108228 Year: 1992 Publisher: Rotterdam Brookfield Balkema


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Seaweed Phylogeography : Adaptation and Evolution of Seaweeds under Environmental Change
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ISBN: 940177532X 9401775346 Year: 2016 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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The book provides an overview of research on the remarkable diversity, adaptive genetic differentiation, and evolutionary complexity of intertidal macroalgae species. Through incorporating molecular data, ecological niche and model-based phylogeographic inference, this book presents the latest findings and hypotheses on the spatial distribution and evolution of seaweeds in the context of historical climate change (e.g. the Quaternary ice ages), contemporary global warming, and increased anthropogenic influences. The chapters in this book highlight past and current research on seaweed phylogeography and predict the future trends and directions. This book frames a number of research cases to review how biogeographic processes and interactive eco-genetic dynamics shaped the demographic histories of seaweeds, which furthermore enhances our understanding of speciation and diversification in the sea. Dr. Zi-Min Hu is an associate professor at Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China. Dr. Ceridwen Fraser is a senior lecturer at Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.


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The Indo-European controversy : facts and fallacies in historical linguistics
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ISBN: 9781107054530 1107054532 9781107294332 9781107665385 1316315908 1316322602 1316309223 1316329283 1316332624 1107665388 1316325946 1316319245 1107294339 1316288498 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative evolutionary biologists has sought to reinvent historical linguistics through the use of phylogenetic and phylogeographical analysis, treating cognates like genes and conceptualizing the spread of languages in terms of the diffusion of viruses. Using these techniques, researchers claim to have located the origin of the Indo-European language family in Neolithic Anatolia, challenging the near-consensus view that it emerged in the grasslands north of the Black Sea thousands of years later. But despite its widespread celebration in the global media, this new approach fails to withstand scrutiny. As languages do not evolve like biological species and do not spread like viruses, the model produces incoherent results, contradicted by the empirical record at every turn. This book asserts that the origin and spread of languages must be examined primarily through the time-tested techniques of linguistic analysis, rather than those of evolutionary biology.

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Indo-European languages --- Evolution. Phylogeny --- Historical linguistics --- Indoeuropeiska språk --- Språkhistoria --- Indo-Europeans --- Historical linguistics. --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Evolution (Biology) --- Phylogeny. --- Phylogeography. --- Bayesian statistical decision theory. --- forskning --- Study and teaching. --- Research. --- Migrations. --- Origin. --- Språkhistoria. --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics). --- Evolution (Biology). --- forskning. --- Forskning. --- Phylogeny --- Phylogeography --- Bayesian statistical decision theory --- Study and teaching --- Research --- Origin --- Migrations --- Indo-European languages - Study and teaching --- Indo-European languages - Research --- Indo-Europeans - Origin --- Indo-Europeans - Migrations --- Aryan languages --- Indo-Germanic languages --- Analysis, Linguistic (Linguistics) --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Animal phylogeny --- Animals --- Phylogenetics --- Phylogeny (Zoology) --- Biology --- Animal evolution --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Aryans --- Civilization, Aryan --- Civilization, Indo-European --- Indo-Germanic peoples --- Caucasian race --- Ethnology --- Bayes' solution --- Bayesian analysis --- Statistical decision --- Biogeography --- History


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Encyclopedia of human evolution and Prehistory
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ISBN: 0824093755 9780824093754 Year: 1988 Volume: 768 Publisher: New York London Garland

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