The Geography of Evolution and the Evolution of Geography
Issue Date
2012-01-01Author
Lieberman, Bruce S.
Publisher
SpringerOpen
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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Insights into the geography of life have played a fundamental role in motivating major developments in evolutionary biology. The focus here is on outlining some of these major developments, specifically in the context of paleontology, by emphasizing the significance of geographic isolation and allopatric speciation, punctuated equilibria, and the Turnover Pulse Hypothesis to evolutionary theory. One of the major debates in evolution concerns the relative contributions of abiotic and biotic factors to macroevolution, and each one of these developments increasingly suggested that it was climatic and geologic factors, rather than competition, that played the primary role in motivating macroevolution. New technical developments, including in the area of Geographic Information Systems, allow continued detailed testing of the relative roles that biotic as opposed to abiotic factors play in causing evolution, and some of the work in this area will also be described.
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This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12052-012-0414-1.
ISSN
1936-6426Collections
Citation
Lieberman, Bruce S. 2012. The geography of evolution and the evolution of geography. Evolution Education and Outreach (5):521-525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12052-012-0414-1
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