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[Taxacom] Dispersal example

Curtis Clark lists at curtisclark.org
Sun Apr 20 13:41:55 CDT 2014


On 2014-04-17 4:26 PM, John Grehan wrote:
> ...dispersalist have
> for a long time asserted that chance dispersal can account for any
> distribution.

Thus dispersal cannot be falsified. It only serves as an explanation 
when all falsifiable alternatives have been falsified. IMO 
panbiogeography has a lot of unnecessary baggage (orthogenesis being a 
major one), but this part makes sense.

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