生物地理学8Jonathan_island biogeography_Nature09.pdfVIP

INSIGHT REVIEW NATURE|Vol 457 |12 February 2009 |doi:10.1038/nature07893 Adaptation and diversification on islands 1 2 Jonathan B. Losos Robert E. Ricklefs Charles Darwin’s travels on HMS Beagle taught him that islands are an important source of evidence for evolution. Because many islands are young and have relatively few species, evolutionary adaptation and species proliferation are obvious and easy to study. In addition, the geographica