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Origins of endemic island tortoises in the western Indian Ocean: a critique of the human‐translocation hypothesis

2017-06-01

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How do organisms arrive on isolated islands, and how do insular evolutionary radiations arise? In a recent paper, Wilmé et al. () argue that early Austronesians that colonized Madagascar from Southeast Asia translocated giant tortoises to islands in the western Indian Ocean. In the Mascarene Islands, moreover, the human‐translocated tortoises then evolved and radiated in an endemic genus (Cylindraspis). Their prop...

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DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12893

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