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020			_a0465020518 (hardcover)
020			_a9780465020515 (hardcover)
020			_a0465069762 (e-book)
020			_a9780465069767 (e-book)
035			_a(OCoLC)858975420 _z(OCoLC)859243670 _z(OCoLC)869788336
050	0	0	_aQH543.3 _b.D42 2013
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100	1		_aDe Queiroz, Alan, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe monkey's voyage : _bhow improbable journeys shaped the history of life / _cAlan de Queiroz.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBasic Books, _c2013.
300			_avii, 360 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_gIntroduction: _tOf garter snakes and Gondwana -- _gSection 1: _tEarth and life. _tFrom Noah's ark to New York : the roots of the story -- _tThe fragmented world -- _tOver the edge of reason -- _tNew Zealand stirrings -- _gSection 2: _tTrees and time. _tThe DNA explosion -- _tBelieve the forest -- _gSection 3: _tThe improbable, the rare, the mysterious, and the miraculous. _tThe green web -- _tA frog's tale -- _tThe monkey's voyage -- _tThe long, strange history of the Gondwanan islands -- _gSection 4: _tTransformations. _tThe structure of biogeographic "revolutions" -- _tA world shaped by miracles -- _tEpilogue : the driftwood coast.
520			_a"Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are across the Earth? Since the discovery of plate tectonics, scientists have conjectured that plants and animals were scattered over the globe by riding pieces of ancient supercontinents as they broke up. In the past decade, however, that theory has foundered, as the genomic revolution has made reams of new data available. And the data has revealed an extraordinary, stranger-than-fiction story that has sparked a scientific upheaval. In The Monkey's Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz describes the radical new view of how fragmented distributions came into being: frogs and mammals rode on rafts and icebergs, tiny spiders drifted on storm winds, and plant seeds were carried in the plumage of sea-going birds to create the map of life we see today. In other words, these organisms were not simply constrained by continental fate; they were the makers of their own geographic destiny. And as de Queiroz shows, the effects of oceanic dispersal have been crucial in generating the diversity of life on Earth, from monkeys and guinea pigs in South America to beech trees and kiwi birds in New Zealand. By toppling the idea that the slow process of continental drift is the main force behind the odd distributions of organisms, this theory highlights the dynamic and unpredictable nature of the history of life."-- _cFrom publisher's description.
650		0	_aAnimals _xDispersal.
650		0	_aPlants _xDispersal.
650		0	_aBiogeography.
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