Evolutionary Age of the Galápagos Iguana
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Kornelia Rassmann
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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New geological findings suggest that volcanoes existed over the Galápagos hotspot long before today's islands emerged less than 5 million years ago. The evolution of some of Galápagos' biota might have taken place on these former islands. This study investigates the evolutionary history of two of th