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Origins of Biogeography - The role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Origins of Biogeography - The role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 13
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This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and
investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the
classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. It
moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from
a synthesis of Darwin and Wallace and focuses on the important
pioneering work of earlier practitioners such as Zimmermann,
Stromeyer, de Candolle and Humboldt. Tracing the academic history
of biogeography over the decades and centuries, this book recounts
the early schisms in phyto and zoogeography, the shedding of its
bonds to taxonomy, its adoption of an ecological framework and its
beginnings at the dawn of the 20th century. This book assesses the
contributions of key figures such as Zimmermann, Humboldt and
Wallace and reminds us of the forgotten influence of plant and
animal geographers including Stromeyer, Prichard and de Candolle,
whose early attempts at classifying animal and plant geography
would inform later progress.<
The Origins of Biogeography is a science historiography aimed at
biogeographers, who have little access to a detailed history of the
practices of early plant and animal geographers. This book will
also reveal how biological classification has shaped 18th and 19th
century plant and animal geography and why it is relevant to the
21st bio geographer.
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