TY - JOUR
AU - Briggs, John C.
AB - JOHN C. BRIGGS Department of Zoology, University of South Florida, Tampa Accepted May 30, 1966 Many biologists have recognized that vertebrates. His works gave impressive evidence to show that the main centers of most of the evolutionary experiments made by nature are failures in the sense dispersal were located in the Old World that they do not survive long and do not tropics and he found that the larger the Rive rise to continuing phyletic lines. It area and the warmer and more stable the has been estimated that, of all species climate, the more diverse were the popu­ that have lived on the earth, less than one lations. Also, Darlington ( 1957: 618) per cent are now living, and it has been reiterated that the first fundamental fact of zoogeography was that animals were stated: "There is no way to predict, as far as the incipient species is concerned, not distributed at random but in a defi­ whether the new niche it enters is a dead nite worldwide pattern. end or the entrance into a large new adap­ It is now apparent that many groups tive zone" (Mayr, 1963: 621). From a of marine animals exhibit similar distri­ 
TI - ZOOGEOGRAPHY AND EVOLUTION
JF - Evolution
DO - 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1966.tb03366.x
DA - 1966-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/zoogeography-and-evolution-Lh31TKRG44
SP - 282
EP - 289
VL - 20
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -