Historic Biogeography

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History of place

changes in environment

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history of lineage

changes in organisms

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paleoendemic

had a larger range but was reduced

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neoendemic

newly evolved, no time to spread

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cosmopolitan

found everywhere

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relict range

ancient range that is no longer the case

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biogeographic regions

areas categorized by types and relationships of organisms

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ancestral area reconstruction

tree showing probability of where an organism originated

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convergence

similar traits evolve in different species

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incomplete lineage sorting

evolution of alleles doesnt line up 1:1 w/ evolution of a species

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molecular clock

rate of fixed mutation acumulation

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geophylogeny

phylogenetic tree but the organisms are pieces of land and the data is geologic