The Monkey's Voyage : : how Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
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Of garter snakes and Gondwana -- Earth and life -- From Noah's ark to New York : the roots of the story -- The fragmented world -- Over the edge of reason -- New Zealand stirrings -- Trees and time -- The DNA explosion -- Believe the forest -- The improbable, the rare, the mysterious, and the miraculous -- The green web -- A frog's tale -- The monkey's voyage -- The long, strange history of the Gondwanan islands -- Transformations -- The structure of biogeographic "revolutions" -- A world shaped by miracles -- Epilogue : the driftwood coast.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: vii, 360 p. : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780465020515
0465020518
SUBJECTS
Animals -- Dispersal.
Plants -- Dispersal.
Biogeography.