[Taxacom] panbiogeographic origins: Darwin's "abominable" mystery

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Thomas G. Lammers wrote:
> At 11:12 AM 3/19/2010, John Grehan wrote:
>> Well there is nothing much new in this as Croizat presented
>> biogeographic and morphogenetic evidence for the origin of angiosperms
>> in the Carboniferous-Permian period. Of course he got ignored by the
>> dominant botanical authorities. But it's nice to see the 'modern'
>> technology back him up on that (without acknowledgement I expect).
> 
> "Even a blind chicken gets a little corn if he pecks often enough."

* has anyone ever dispassionately tallied contemporary opinion of each 
of Croizat's panbiogeographic predictions, and subjected the tally to a 
chi-square test?

fred.
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