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Geology and climate drive diversification

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Data from the Galapagos Islands exemplify how geology and climate can interact to cause episodes of isolation and fusion of the biota across a landscape. Different scales of such cycles dictate varying mechanisms of species generation.

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Figure 1: Isolation across scales of space and time.

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  1. Rosemary G. Gillespie and George K. Roderick are in the Department of Environmental Science and the Berkeley Natural History Museums, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-3114, USA.,

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