[Taxacom] Fwd: Woodpeckers, primates, as well as the Wallace Line gauntlet

[Jason Mate]

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> As usual, I'm in complete agreement with everything you've written. Using chance (dispersal) to explain a pattern is just nihilism and leads nowhere. On the positive side, have a look at the Mol. Phylogen. Evol. website. 13 of the 46 forthcoming papers (28%) have chosen to put maps in their graphic abstracts - their most interesting result was a geographic pattern! At the rate these patterns are now accumulating, I can't see the concept of chance dispersal lasting much longer. Once it's dropped, a real science of biogeography may develop. 

Yup, Panbiogeography is an open-minded endeavour indeed where neither vicariance nor dispersal is assumed. Or am I misreading? ;)