Biogeography emerging: provocative and integrative perspectives in historical biogeography

摘要

Well,perhaps you can judge a book byits cover,at least to some extent.ArtistNeal Adams was commissioned by theeditors of this collected volume of essaysto illustrate a still far from mainstream,yet captivating,theory on the dynamicsof the earth-the expanding earththeory-championed by a select groupof individuals(most notably S. WarrenCarey)from the 1950s to 1980s.The theory remains an unaccepted, but perhaps unappreciated,explanation for the dynamics of the continents and theirrespective biotas,which drifted apart as a small, primor-dial,continental earth expanded and ocean basins devel-oped to fill in the gaps.