[Taxacom] Biodiversity questions: Classifications

[muscapaul]

Just out of interest: If actual age would (should?) be playing a role,
where do we then account for differences between taxa with highly divergent
generation time, like drosophilids with perhaps more than 10 generations
per year under favourable conditions and panthophthalmids which probably
take multiple years to develop? And then I am just considering taxa within
the same order where one might give rise to new taxa on a much shorter
absolute time scale than the other.

Paul

On 3 October 2013 12:59, Chris Thompson <xelaalex at cox.net> wrote:

> So, for example, in Diptera, we now recognize a family which is a clade of
> some 10 thousand species and of some 200 million years old (Limoniidae) and
> another family of less than a dozen species and probably less than 5
> million
> years old (Inbiomyiidae).

...
>
> So, if one wants to derived scientific hypotheses from classifications, one
> must go back to clades and their age.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris