Citation
Contingency and Determinism in Replicated Adaptive Radiations of Island Lizards
TL;DR
Independent radiations produced similar ecomorphs
Landmark paper demonstrating that Caribbean anole radiations on different islands independently evolved similar sets of ecomorphs, suggesting ecological niches constrain radiation to predictable outcomes.
Central to the book's argument that markets have predictable 'niche geometry' - companies don't invent new niches, they discover and occupy them.
Key Findings from Losos & al. (1998)
- Independent radiations produced similar ecomorphs
- Ecological niches constrain radiation outcomes
- Deterministic element in seemingly contingent evolution