GGR305H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)
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Genus includes 2 species: 2 different types of camels. Disjunct distribution: same family of animals on separate parts of the world. Autecology: how physical environment affects how and where we find these taxonomic groups. Early biogeography was temporally static: things don"t change overtime. Sees what species are closely related to. Shared characteristic between each level and member. # of formally known species was in 1800s 1% of all species known today. Climate is not to explain species presence in 1700s. Some species have high species richness and some don"t. All endemic species (found within one region) If you have one species present you may have another one present, if one is absent, the other is too - relationships. Disjunction distributions - similar organisms that occur in very separated areas. 3 important advances: geologists came up with estimate of age of earth.