[Taxacom] Taxacom Digest, Vol 187, Issue 18

[Michael Heads]

I don't know any 'all-vicariance biogeographer', let alone a team. Can you
name any? If evolution really was 'all vicariance', every species would
have its own range, shared with no other.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 6:48 PM Jason Mate via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> "Here's another predictable example of garbage biogeography. Garbage,
> because ...
> ...maintaining the fiction ...
> It's all a total fabrication, now verging on fraud ..."
>
> Even if people were marginally sympathetic to panbiogeography, the over the
> top language would harden their stance. What you are complaining about,
> again, is that they are using
> timing to discern between tectonics and active dispersal. We already know
> the "all-vicariance-team" has no room for the latter so... what's new?
>
> Jason
>
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 at 04:00, <taxacom-request at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
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> >    1. Garbage dispersal of iguanas to Madagascar (John Grehan)
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> > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 13:48:30 -0500
> > From: John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com>
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> > Subject: [Taxacom] Garbage dispersal of iguanas to Madagascar
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> > Here's another predictable example of garbage biogeography. Garbage,
> > because it fails to address the reality that fossil calibrated ages are
> > minimums only. By maintaining the fiction that fossil calibrated ages are
> > something else, this paper (citation below) misrepresents fossil
> calibrated
> > ages as evidence for iguanas in Madagascar to have arrived after
> separation
> > from Africa, via rafting on vegetation (I would call this floating on
> > metaphysical garbage) from South America (where its sister group is
> > present). It's all a total fabrication, now verging on fraud (I use that
> > term because the failure to address the fossil age minimum criterion has
> to
> > be deliberate since the critique is widely published and known). Anyone
> who
> > wants a copy but does not have access, and is interested to see it to
> > evaluate my assessment further, is welcome to get a copy from me. Cheers,
> > John Grehan
> >
> > Welt, S.R. & Raxworthy, J.C. 2021. Dispersal, not vicariance, explains
> the
> > biogeographic origin of iguanas on Madagascar, Molecular Phylogenetics
> and
> > Evolution.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107345
> >
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Dunedin, New Zealand.

My books:

*Biogeography and evolution in New Zealand. *Taylor and Francis/CRC, Boca
Raton FL. 2017.
https://www.routledge.com/Biogeography-and-Evolution-in-New-Zealand/Heads/p/book/9781498751872


*Biogeography of Australasia:  A molecular analysis*. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge. 2014. www.cambridge.org/9781107041028


*Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics. *University of California Press,
Berkeley. 2012. www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271968


*Panbiogeography: Tracking the history of life*. Oxford University Press,
New York. 1999. (With R. Craw and J. Grehan).
http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=Bm0_QQ3Z6GUC
<http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=Bm0_QQ3Z6GUC&dq=panbiogeography&source=gbs_navlinks_s>