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< Biogenic | Biogeography | Bioinformatics > We have 10 pages of Biogeography Blog Entries. Kevin Padian's (2008) claim that Charles Darwin founded the main principles of biogeography and ecology is clearly incorrect. Biogeography was alive and well long before Darwin's birth, in fact Augustin Pyramus de Candolle and Alexander ... From Malte Ebach & David Williams Biogeography in a Planet of Weeds. About. Posted by: genghisprawn | October 1, 2008. Coyaba ?Crayfish?. Image from here. As the display caption says, a ?crayfish? (actually a prawn, Macrobrachium carcinus) from the Coyaba River in Ocho ... From genghisprawn The "Sensible Way", namely a misinterpretation between a thing or concept with a particular explanatory mechanism, is the bane of systematics and biogeography. So is the 1859-syndrome, which shows an ignorance of history and the ... From Malte Ebach & David Williams ... work with phylogenetics, anatomy, morphometrics, biogeography, you name it. But there are too many phylogeneticists, evolutionary biologists, who do not contribute to providing knowledge about the hidden diversity on our planet. ... From unknown Further, one might see Systematics and Biogeography (Nelson & Platnick, 1981) as a further detailed critique of Haeckel - if the most detailed critique available - and a restatement of de Candolle's viewpoints on classification. ... From Malte Ebach & David Williams Systematics and Biogeography has a problem: similarity. Ever since Goethe, naturalists and biologists have been rejecting similarity. It is the foundation of artificial classifications, non-evolutionary groupings and the basis for many ... From Malte Ebach & David Williams It is sad that systematics and biogeography have been degraded to choosing "best" numerical methods when something far greater is at stake - the disappearance of natural classification. This whole debate, for us at least, has been about ... From David Williams & Malte Ebach Phenetically grouped organisms may not necessarily be more closely related to each other than they are to another group. In other words, phenetics cannot distinguish paraphyly from monophyly. An analogous problem exists in biogeography. ... From Malte Ebach & David Williams The trend of embracing apparent dichotomies within systematics and biogeography rather than question them, is one of things that philosophers of science need to get over. Philosophers of science need to question, examine and assess such ... From Malte Ebach & David Williams What if we proposed that Anna's hummingbird originated in Madagascar and generated a plausible rational argument to support that hypothesis? Suddenly we stir some interest within the biogeographic and marco-ecology communities. ... From Malte Ebach & David WilliamsPlanet > Biogeography > Biogeography Blog Entries
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94.) Stranger Fruit: Planet Bob ... or why taxonomy is important
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