Ghosts of Gondwana: The History of Life in New ZealandNew Zealand is an extraordinary place, unique on Earth, and the remarkable story of how and why life evolved here is the subject of Ghosts of Gondwana. The science that traces the history of life on Earth is called historical biogeography and it is the theme of this book. Biogeography is a wide-ranging study, involving geology, genetics and biology |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alpine Fault alpine zone ancestors ancient animals and plants Antarctica Australia biogeography biologists birds Caledonia Cenozoic cicadas climate colonisation continents Cretaceous dinosaurs dispersal distribution divaricating diversity endemic evidence evolution evolutionary evolved examples explanation extinct fish flightless flowers fossil record freshwater frogs gecko genus geological giant weta glacial Gondwana habitats Hebe historical biogeography insects invertebrates kakapo kauri kiwi land landscape lineages living mammals Manuherikia million Miocene molecular studies mountains North Northern Nothofagus occurred ocean Oligocene organisms Otago Pacific parrot patterns PHOTO GEORGE GIBBS PHOTO ROD MORRIS phylogenetic tree phylogeny plant groups plants and animals Pleistocene pollen record ratites recent region relatives reptiles rocks ROD MORRIS Scale line separation short-tailed bat South Island South Island takahe southern beech Southern Hemisphere species story survive takahe Tasman Sea tectonic terrestrial tion tuatara vegetation vertebrate vicariance wren Zealand Zealand biota Zealand plants Zealandia