Gigantism and Dwarfism on Islands

Further Reading

Brown, J. H. and Mark V. Lomolino. 1998. Biogeography. 2nd edition. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, 1998. (Note: A new edition, the third, was published in 2005.)

Brown, P. et al. 2004. "A New Small-Bodied Hominin From the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia." Nature, 431: pp. 1055-1061, (28 October 2004).

Case, T. J. 1978. "A General Explanation For Insular Body Size Trends in Terrestrial Vertebrates." Ecology, 59(1): pp. 1-18.

Flannery, Tim. 2002. The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People. New York: Grove Press, 2002.

Foster, J. B. 1964. "Evolution of Mammals on Islands." Nature, 202 (4929): pp. 234-235, (18 April 1964).

Millien, V. 2006. "Morphological Evolution Is Accelerated Among Island Mammals." PloS Biology, 4(10): e321.

Morwood, M. J. et al. 2004. "Archaeology and Age of a New Hominin From Flores in Eastern Indonesia." Nature, 431: pp. 1087-1091 , (28 October 2004).

Quammen, D. 1996. Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. New York: Scribner, 1996.

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