The hierarchy of speciation-promoting geographies in Charles Darwin's Origin of Species
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2177-5230.2023.e84537Keywords:
Biogeography, Epistemology, Speciation, Charles Darwin, Refuge TheoryAbstract
This article deals with the hierarchy made by Charles Darwin, in The Origin of Species, of the best geographical conditions for the occurrence of speciation, going from the worst condition, a small and isolated area, to one of better condition, characterized by being large, continuous and which has already gone through fragmentation. From this, we try to demonstrate that the speciation process in passerine birds in the Galapagos Islands would be, in Darwin's view, the worst geographic scenario for the occurrence of such phenomenon. And also, that such hierarchy of geographies that promote speciation is at the base of one of the most important biogeographic theories in force, the Refuge Theory.
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