A Contribution To The Zo Geography Of The West Indies
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An Outline of the Geography of the West Indies
Author | : J. E. Blackman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Physical geography |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112083841244 |
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Reading the Shape of Nature
Author | : Mary P. Winsor |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 1991-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226902159 |
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Reading the Shape of Nature vividly recounts the turbulent early history of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and the contrasting careers of its founder Louis Agassiz and his son Alexander. Through the story of this institution and the individuals who formed it, Mary P. Winsor explores the conflicting forces that shaped systematics in the second half of the nineteenth century. Debates over the philosophical foundations of classification, details of taxonomic research, the young institution's financial struggles, and the personalities of the men most deeply involved are all brought to life. In 1859, Louis Agassiz established the Museum of Comparative Zoology to house research on the ideal types that he believed were embodied in all living forms. Agassiz's vision arose from his insistence that the order inherent in the diversity of life reflected divine creation, not organic evolution. But the mortar of the new museum had scarcely dried when Darwin's Origin was published. By Louis Agassiz's death in 1873, even his former students, including his son Alexander, had defected to the evolutionist camp. Alexander, a self-made millionaire, succeeded his father as director and introduced a significantly different agenda for the museum. To trace Louis and Alexander's arguments and the style of science they established at the museum, Winsor uses many fascinating examples that even zoologists may find unfamiliar. The locus of all this activity, the museum building itself, tells its own story through a wonderful series of archival photographs.
Biogeography of the West Indies
Author | : Charles Arthur Woods |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1120 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822005131669 |
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Biogeography of the West Indies
Author | : Charles A. Woods,Florence E. Sergile |
Publsiher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2001-06-27 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781420039481 |
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As a review of the status of biogeography in the West Indies in the 1980s, the first edition of Biogeography of the West Indies: Past, Present, and Future provided a synthesis of our current knowledge of the systematics and distribution of major plant and animal groups in the Caribbean basin. The totally new and revised Second Edition, Biogeography
An Outline of the Geography of the West Indies
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Author | : Joseph Elliott Blackman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : West Indies |
ISBN | : OCLC:250183230 |
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Contributions to Geology
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : RUTGERS:39030025472228 |
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Zoogeography of Caribbean Insects
Author | : James K. Liebherr |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2019-05-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781501746017 |
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Because historical biogeography—the study of historical causes of biotic distributions—is a comparative science, one must draw on data from many different disciplines. This book brings together for the first time the results of studies on a variety of insect groups native to the islands of the Caribbean, and is intended as an early progress report on the use of insects in biogeographical research from this area. The Caribbean has been of great interest to zoogeographers because of its geologic position and history, and because the fauna is of limited diversity relative to mainland America. This limited diversity coupled with the accessibility of the islands has resulted in the Caribbean fauna being relatively well known compared to other Neotropical faunas. Intriguing questions include how and when the West Indian islands became populated, how the fauna and flora of the islands relate to those of the continents, and whether the Caribbean islands served as a dispersal corridor between the Americas. As the interpretation of biographic patterns and knowledge of earth history go hand in hand, this book appropriately opens with a chapter reviewing the geology of the Caribbean and its land masses, including various interpretations of plate tectonics. Eight specialists on six orders of insects then present from study sites in the Caribbean the results of their research on the biogeographic distribution and historical biogeography of their study animals. A final chapter puts into a concise framework the various methods by which taxonomists approach biogeography.
The Geography of America and the West Indies
Author | : George Long,Wilhelm Wittich,George Richardson Porter,George Tucker,Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1841 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HN31AP |
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