In a way that relates to how plants and animals are distributed across different geographic regions and how their locations shaped their evolution.
From biogeography (bio- 'life' + geography 'earth description'), with -ically suffix. The term emerged in the 1800s when naturalists like Alfred Wallace studied why certain species lived only in specific parts of the world.
Biogeographically speaking, why are lemurs found only in Madagascar? Because this island split off from Africa 88 million years ago, and its creatures evolved in isolation—it's like they got their own evolutionary laboratory.
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