This multidisciplinary book focuses on the relationships and
interactions between palaeobiogeography, biogeography, dispersal,
vicariance, migrations and evolution of organisms in the SE
Asia-Australasian region. The book investigates biogeographic links
between SE Asia and Australasia which go back more than 500 million
years. It also focuses on the links between geological evolution
and biological migrations and evolution in the region. It was in
the SE Asian region that Alfred Russell Wallace established his
biogeographic line, now known as Wallace's Line, which was the
beginning of biogeography. Wallace also independently developed his
theory of evolution based on his work in this area.;The book brings
together, for the first time, geologists, palaeontologists,
zoologists, botanists, entomologists, evolutionary biologists and
archaeologists, in the one volume, to relate the region's
geological past to its present biological peculiarities. The book
is organized into six sections. Section 1 Paleobiogeographic
Background provides overviews of the geological and tectonic
evolution of SE Asia-Australasia, and changing patterns of land and
sea for the last 540 million years. Section 2 Palaeozoic and
Mesozoic Geology and Biogeography discusses Palaeozoic and Mesozoic
biogeography of conodonts, brachiopods, plants, dinosaurs and
radiolarians and the recognition of ancient biogeographic
boundaries or Wallace Lines in the region. Section 3 Wallace's Line
focuses on the biogeographic boundary established by Wallace,
including the history of its establishment, its significance to
biogeography in general and its applicability in the context of
modern biogeography.;Section 4 Plant biogeography and evolution
includes discussion on primitive angiosperms, the diaspora of the
southern rushes, and environmental, climatic and evolutionary
implications of plants and palynomorphs in the region. The
biogeography and migration of insects, butterflies, birds, rodents
and other non-primate mammals is discussed in section 5, Non
Primates. The final section 6 Primates focuses on the biogeographic
radiation, migration and evolution of primates and includes papers
on the occurrence and migration of early hominids and the
requirements for human colonization of Australia.
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