[Taxacom] An improved definition of cladogenesis

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Bob Mesibov wrote:
> Ken Kinman wrote:
> 
> "It's this fuzziness of species boundaries that makes it impossible to pin down where "cladogenesis" occurred. "
> 
> A whole paper, IMO brilliant, was published about exactly this point in 1994: http://rjohara.net/cv/1993-sb (free read).

* and along the lines of borrowing points of view from other fields, 
I've often said to those who have never heard of cladistics that it's to 
biology as quantum mechanics (which they've usually heard of) is to physics.

I wonder if there's a way, in the present case, to usefully import some 
ideas about "cladogenic uncertainty" from the treatment of quantum 
uncertainties, either just as a conceptual model, or even as some of the 
computational methods.

not that I'm mathematical enough to understand either,

fred.
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