[Taxacom] Meliaceae (vicariance??)

[Kenneth Kinman]

       I agree that I shouldn't have used the word ignore.   Instead I should have said something like "panbiogeographers tend to over-estimate the importance of vicariance and under-estimate the importance of dispersal, which can be particularly misleading with taxa at higher taxonomic levels (Orders and Families).
      Anyway, I would be very surprised if anyone ever found Meliaceae fossils that were 120 million years old (much less 140 million years old).  I doubt that Meliaceae and Rutaceae had evolved that early (and I am certainly not alone).
                             ------------------Ken

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From: John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2019 7:52 PM
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Cc: Kenneth Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com>; taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Meliaceae (vicariance??)

Nicely summarized with precise details (vs my overly general description). And I overlooked that remark about panbiogeographers ignoring dispersal - which they do not of course and never have. Its one of those myths that keeps popping up over the decades.

John Grehan