Alan de Queiroz (Get this book) In his entertaining and enlightening book, evolutionary biologist de Queiroz demonstrates that despite this longstanding interest in the subject, the discipline has resisted an organizing paradigm. De Queiroz comprehensively describes the shift, beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, from Darwin's belief that long-distance dispersal was the dominant explanation for biogeographic patterns to the rise of those promoting vicariance the belief that environmental fragmentation is responsible for observed patterns and back again to promoting long distance dispersal. Beyond the actual science, de Queiroz brings insight into the nature of scientific discourse itself.--Publisher's Weekly
