[Taxacom] Geophylogeny

[Jim Croft]

I was thinking more of pots and kettles throwing stones and falling on each
others' swords in glasshouses... or similar...

jim

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 8:41 AM, John Grehan <jgrehan at sciencebuff.org> wrote:

> One person's poison is another persons....
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> Cheers,
>
> John Grehan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Croft [mailto:jim.croft at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 4:38 PM
> To: John Grehan
> Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Geophylogeny
>
> Oh... Like tracks then?
>
> Jim
>
> On Tuesday, November 9, 2010, John Grehan <jgrehan at sciencebuff.org> wrote:
> > Hypothetical is an understatement. None existent may be more like it!
> >
> > John Grehan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Karl Magnacca
> > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 3:27 PM
> > To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> > Cc: Bob Mesibov
> > Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Geophylogeny
> >
> >> Aaiiiieeee! Getting close to hair-splitting here, and maybe an
> >> expert biogeographer on the list would like to comment. The
> >> historical phylogeography I've read has mainly focused on testing
> >> specific hypotheses, e.g. that a particular area was a refuge or a
> >> hotspot of diversification. What Kidd wants to do is literally map a
> >> phylogeny, so that the whole construct is an hypothesis which could
> >> be tested with fossils or geological narratives.
> >
> > Is this really new?  I suppose you could argue that in a statistical
> > sense "most" historical biogeography is as you describe, but the
> > latter has been done for a long time as well.  The program DiVA, for
> > example, is made to map the geographic distribution of hypothetical
> > ancestors of a phylogenetic tree using a parsimony algorithm.
> >
> > Karl
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> > University of Hawaii-Hilo
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