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Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale. Furthermore, in studies of global biogeography and evolution, DNA sequencing has shown that many large groups, such as flowering plants, passerine birds and squamates, have their basal components in this area. Using examples ranging from kangaroos and platypuses to kiwis and birds of paradise, the book examines the patterns of distribution and evolution of Australasian biodiversity and explains them with reference to tectonic and climatic change in the region. The surprising results from molecular biogeography demonstrate that an understanding of evolution in Australasia is essential for understanding the development of modern life on Earth. A milestone in the literature on this subject, this book will be a valuable source of reference for students and researchers in biogeography, biodiversity, ecology and conservation.

Biogeography --- Biology --- Species --- Classification --- Molecular aspects --- Speciation (Biology) --- Genetics --- Hybridization --- Organisms --- Life sciences --- Biomass --- Life (Biology) --- Natural history --- Areography (Biology) --- Geographical distribution of animals and plants --- Species distribution --- Geography --- Molecular aspects. --- Geographical distribution

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Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridization of the world as we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a technically assisted hybridization of both space and self, the »old« world is becoming virtualized and functionalized to a degree never experienced before. For the first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental terms of understanding what world means for us, our base of existence and now an assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what being human means. With a Preface by Gerd Stern. »Eine interessante und perspektivenreiche Sammlung, die sich zentralen Beobachtungen und Problemstellungen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts widmet.« Solvejg Nitzke, MEDIENwissenschaft, 1 (2015)

Hybridization; World-Creations; Functionalization; Space; Mixed Realities; Changes of the Self; Culture; Media; Cultural Theory; Media Theory; Media Studies; Cultural Studies --- Changes of the Self. --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Theory. --- Culture. --- Functionalization. --- Media Studies. --- Media Theory. --- Media. --- Mixed Realities. --- Space. --- World-Creations.