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leogene, and this removes the earlier misconception of long-term stabil-
ity that plagued evolutionary biologists and biogeographers in their efforts
to discover mechanisms to explain the origin of biodiversity and patterns
of distribution—a rather nice contribution from “historic demographic
information that cannot be discerned based on contemporary scenarios”
(Beheregaray et al. 2003, 75).
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