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Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Some rubbing to spine. Previous owner's name "R. Craw" on 3 of the offprints/ extracts. ; Complete issue. [4], (457)-621, [3] pages. Card covers. Page dimensions: 240 x 170mm. Various contributors. Text mainly in English, some text in Italian. Contents: Editorial - Giuseppe Semonti. The bamboo season; Special Issue on Panbiogeography - R. Craw and G. Sermonti (editors), "Introduction" - Robin Craw; "Panbiogeography: evolution in space and time" - John Robert Grehan; "Reading Croizat. On the Edge of Biology" - Robin Craw & Michael Heads; "Punctid Snails. A path to panbiogeography" - Frank Climo; "A lepidopterist's view of panbiogeography" - Hideyuki Chiba; "Box I. The natural biogeographic regions. Box II. Biogeographic Homology. Ratites and the southern beeches" - J. R. Grehan; "Interview with Leon Croizat" - Jonathan Baskin (pp. 589-612); "Theory of Hologenesis" - D. Rosa. Leon Croizat (1894-1982) was born in Italy. He lived for many years in Venezuela, where he developed the biogeographical and evolutionary theory known as Panbiogeography. Croizat's first work on Panbiogeography was published in 1958. It was titled: "Panbiogeography : or, An Introductory Synthesis of Zoogeography, Phytogeography, and Geology, with notes on evolution, systematics, ecology, anthropology, etc". [Together with: (1) "A Vicariance Model of Caribbean Biogeogaphy" - Donn E. Rosen. Offprint, reprinted from Systematic Zoology, Vol. 24 No. 4, December 1975. [2], (431)-464 pages. (2) "Land-Snail Biogeography: A True Snail's Pace of Change" (+ Discussion & Response) - A. Solem. Publisher not listed, appears to be Chapter 5 of a larger work. No date (c.1979). (197)-237, [1 (blank)] pages. (3) "The Enigma of the Central American Herpetofauna: Dispersals of Vicariance?" - Jay M. Savage. Extract from Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 69: 464-547. (4) "Vicariance and Cladistics: Historical Perspectives with Implications for the Future" - G. Nelson. Extract from Systematics Association Special Volume No. 23. 1983. (469)-492 pages. (5) "Perspectives on the Origin of the Floristic Similarity between Eastern Asia and Eastern North America" - Bruce H. Tiffney. Offprint from Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 66: 73-94. (6) "Anartia" Numero 10, Diciembre 2000. Complete issue, containing the paper "Panbiogeografia 1981-2000: Desarrollo de una Sintesis Tierra/Vida" by John R. Grehan. 42, [2 (blank)] pages. A Spanish translation of a 1991 paper. Including a 1 page letter dated June 17 2001 to Robin Craw from the author, signed "John".