Taxacom: fiction and evolution

[John Grehan]

Here's where fiction meets evolution. Quotes from a web article. Bold - my
emphasis. the idea of dispersal and land connectivity is great - build a
connection and they will come (never mind that in the real [i.e. present]
world there is an overwhelming number of taxa that do not span connected
lands). Note the existence of advantage as a metaphysical doctrine. Sheer
and utter nonsense to my thinking, although I suspect that most on this
list go along with this stuff.

"Because there were gaps in the archosauromorph fossil records, the
research team had to think of a *clever solution* to fill in those gaps.

Using the new c*omputer model *[in other words you will get what you put
into it]  the team analyzed the phylogenetic tree - evolutionary tree - of
archosauromorphs and compared it against *dispersal routes that were based
on landscape connectivity*. The researchers called this TARDIS (terrains
and routes directed in space-time). [definity a TARDY way to do
biogeography]

"Our results suggest that these reptiles were much harderier to the extreme
climate of the Pangaean tropical dead zone, able to endure these hellish
conditions to reach the other side of the world. It's likely that this
ability to survive the inhospitable tropics may have *conferred an
advantage* that saw them thrive in the Triassic world"

"this new information is a big next step in* better understanding
*archosauromorph
evolution. " {i.e. its all made up]





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