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Part III: COMPARATIVE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY IN A TAXONOMIC SENSE
Pages 191-194

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From page 191...
... By analyzing the spatial and taxonomic distributions of such microbial traits, the authors develop an argument for how comparative phylogeographic methods could be highly relevant to predicting the responses of biogeochemical cycles to future climatic and other environmental changes. Kelly Zamudio and colleagues (Chapter 11)
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From page 192...
... In Chapter 12, Anne Yoder and colleagues focus on comparative genetic patterns in one particular taxonomic assemblage: congeneric mouse lemurs on the island of Madagascar. Apart from demonstrating the profound phylogeographic ramifications of altered landscapes across recent geological and human timescales, this survey is instructive because it exemplifies the types of comparative phylogeographic analyses that have been applied to many other animal taxa in various regions around the globe, and because it involves a single large island (as opposed for example to an oceanic, continental, or archipelago setting)
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From page 193...
... Included in this chapter are the deduced evolutionary dates and specific migration routes employed by our ancestors to "people the planet," as well as discussions of the patterns of cultural diversity associated with this phylogeographic history. Harcourt's concise summary of a vast literature on human origins should be of considerable interest to anthropologists and general audiences alike.
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