Phylogeography — The History and Formation of Species
Phylogeography — The History and Formation of Species
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DOI：
10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.0765d.x
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发表时间：
2000-08
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3.8
通讯作者：
J. Searle
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作者：
J. Searle
系统地理学是进化生物学的一个发展领域。John Avise在1987年创造了术语“phylogeography”，从那时起，他一直是推动该领域成功发展的主要推动者。因此，他写的这本书是受欢迎的，它回顾了系统地理学的历史，该领域的基本原则以及系统地理学在生物地理学和进化生物学中的当前和未来价值。与Avise以前的书一样，这本书制作精良，写作风格通俗易懂，这将使它成为高级本科生和研究生专门研究物种地理学的优秀教科书。这本书也将被越来越多的实践物种地理学家使用和广泛引用。它提供了一个简单的入门到原始文献与近一百页的参考文献。我读这本书遇到的唯一实质性困难是前几页。我觉得艾维兹把“系统地理学”的定义搞得很糟糕，我不明白他为什么不在书的开头先定义“生物地理学”，然后定义“生态”和“历史”生物地理学，最后确定“系统地理学”是一种利用分子标记在种内水平推断历史生物地理学情景的方法。相反，第一章的开头给人的印象是，尽管许多历史生物地理学解释不需要任何分子输入，但系统地理学相当于历史生物地理学，而不是历史生物地理学的一部分。本书的副标题“物种的历史和形成”暗示了另一个同样不恰当的系统地理学定义。我对艾维兹传授系统地理学基本理论的方式印象深刻。
Phylogeography is a growth area of evolutionary biology. John Avise coined the termphylogeography'in 1987 and has been the prime mover in promoting the successful development of the field since then. It is therefore to be welcomed that he has written this book which reviews the history of phylogeography, the fundamental principles of the field and the current and future value of phylogeography within biogeography and evolutionary biology. As with Avise's previous books this volume is well-produced and written in an accessible style that will make it an excellent textbook for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates specialising in phylogeography. The book will also be used and widely quoted by the growing community of practising phylogeographers. It provides an easy entry to the primary literature with nearly a hundred pages of references.The only substantive difficulty I had with the book relates to the first few pages. I felt that Avise made heavy weather of definingphylogeography'and did not understand why he didn't begin the book by first defining biogeography, thenecological'andhistorical'biogeography and finally identifying phylogeography as a method of inferring historical biogeographical scenarios at the within-species level using molecular markers. Instead, the beginning of the first chapter gives the impression that phylogeography is equivalent to, rather than part of historical biogeography, despite the fact that much historical biogeographical interpretation does not need any molecular input. A further, also inappropriate, definition for phylogeography is implied by the subheading of the bookthe history and formation of species'. I was very impressed by the manner in which Avise communicates the fundamentals of phylogeographic theory.