[Taxacom] Phylogenetic classification?

[Richard Zander]

Seen this elsewhere, too, which is why I did not list bottlenecking as a factor in speciation, BUT these authors may be using the wrong measures or wrong tests. Bottlenecking e.g. founder effect is still a viable mechanism for speciation, as such, in spite of the evidence for and against its force.


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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Heads
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Phylogenetic classification?

Dear Ken et al.,
?
In their book 'Speciation' (2004: 401)?Coyne & Orr?concluded that 'there is 
little evidence for founder effect speciation'. Note that these?authors are not rabid 
cladists or wacky vicariance biogeographers but eminently?respectable population 
geneticists who?can be taken seriously.
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Michael Heads