Taxacom: oceanic island ghost moth biogeography

[John Grehan]

Interesting (to me anyway) that opponents of panbiogeography on this list
have no rebuttal to the validity of the novel prediction for Phassodes. One
can argue about chance dispersal or vicariance until the cows come home,
but prediction of a new fact, and one that is later corroborated by
empirical observation, is not something that can be argued about.
Regardless of what one may believe about chance dispersal, the fact is that
panbiogeography has generated new facts and had new facts
independently corroborated. Out of the thousands (must be getting up that)
of center of origin-chance dispersal studies, I am not aware that any have
generated predictions of new facts, let alone any that have been
independently corroborated. But if anyone knows anything otherwise, I would
be interested to know.

Cheers,

John Grehan

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 12:06 PM John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com> wrote:

> For those interested, an article now out confirming presence of the ghost
> moth genus Phassodes on Vanuatu, as predicted back in 2018 (i.e. another
> successful novel prediction for panbiogeography). Anyone interested in a
> copy let me know, or go to Research Gate, or the Lepidotperist's Society
> website link for the 'News' and browse for 2024, latest issue.
>
> Cheers, John
>
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