panbiogeographic trivia

[Thomas Schlemmermeyer]

Nice that the panbiogeographic talks continue......


On (         Mon, 12 Jul 1999 01:55:51 -0400
),         John Grehan <jrg13 at PSU.EDU> wrote:


>>John Grehan is too modest to note in his message that he is the coauthor of
>>an excellent new book on panbiogeography:
>>
>>Craw, R. C., J. R. Grehan, M. J. Heads.  1999. Panbiogeography: Tracking
>>the History of Life.  Oxford U. Press.  229 pp.
>>
>>I would agree with Prof. Grehan that panbiogeography is not so lightly to
>>be dismissed.  I also would add that the original views of Croizat are only
>>marginally relevant to any discussion of panbiogeography as it exists
>>today.  We no longer appeal to the early work of Hennig for justification
>>of current practice in cladistics, nor to Darwin for evolutionary biology.
>>Science progresses by correcting the errors of our predecessors and filling
>>in the gaps in their knowledge; this is happening in panbiogeography as
>>elsewhere.
>>
>>Bill Shear
>>Department of Biology
>>Hampden-Sydney College
>>Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
>>(804)223-6172
>>FAX (804)223-6374
>>email<bills at hsc.edu>
>
>My appreciation of the acknowledgement, but I am not so certain that Croizat
has
>yet been rendered enirely redundant by subsequent developments. There is a
>longer
>and more extensive history of study for Darwin and Hennig, whereas
>panbiogeography
>is comparatively unexplored. Certainly Craw, Page, Henderson and others have
>developed new conceptual and analytical models to justify the method, but
>judging
>by the comments published by people such as Brown, Lomolino, and Cox,
>there is still much to be explored within Croizat's own writings. At least
>that's my
>personal belief, but perhaps Bill Shear will turn out to be more correct.
>Croizat said
>that he would applaud the future developments from Beyond.
>
>John Grehan
>


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