Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: The lowland rainforests of the neotropics contain a remarkable diversity of plant and animal species. But is this diversity due to the age and climatic stability of tropical forest regions (museum hypothesis) or to their complexity, which promotes speciation (cradle of diversity hypothesis)? In a Perspective, Bermingham and Dick
elegantly discuss a molecular phylogenetics study of the tropical rain forest genus Inga (
Richardson
et al.). The results of this study suggest that at least in the case of this genus, speciation was rapid and recent, occurring between 3 and 6 million years ago.
Source: Science
Authors: Eldredge Bermingham, Christopher Dick
Institution: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2166219804