The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography

by Jared Diamond and Ernst W. Mayr

Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The Birds of Northern Melanesia
provides by far the most comprehensive study yet available of a rich fauna, composed of the 195 breeding land and fresh-water bird species of the Bismarck...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195141709
• ISBN13: 9780195141702
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 3.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.3" x 10.2"