Bridging the Process-Pattern Divide to Understand the Origins and Early Stages of Adaptive Radiation: A Review of Approaches With Insights From Studies of Anolis Lizards

• Published in: The Journal of heredity Vol. 111; no. 1; pp. 33 - 42
• Main Authors: Stroud, James T, Losos, Jonathan B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: US Oxford University Press 05.02.2020
• Subjects: Adaptation, Biological; Animals; Biological Evolution; Genetic Speciation; Lizards - genetics; Models, Biological; Phenotype; Phylogeography; determinism; diversification; convergence; adaptive radiation; Anolis

Abstract Understanding the origins and early stages of diversification is one of the most elusive tasks in adaptive radiation research. Classical approaches, which aim to infer past processes from present-day patterns of biological diversity, are fraught with difficulties and assumptions. An alterna...