[Taxacom] Ladderising phylogenetic trees

Curtis Clark jcclark-lists at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 10 22:20:27 CST 2010


On 3/10/2010 9:22 AM, Richard Zander wrote:

> Clearly the original thought about "anagenetic evolution" was not clear,
> more a slogan along the lines of "all splits are speciation" which is
> untrue as abundantly demonstrated in publications on molecular
> evolution.

What I'm saying is "all speciation are splits", which is a different 
thing. Certainly anagenesis plays a crucial role in evolution (to me, 
*that* statement is a tautology), and part of the fun is figuring out 
when and how it happens.

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