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Open Thread, 5/1/2016

51OftfuYlSL._SX316_BO1,204,203,200_I’ve been very busy the past month.

That being said, I made time to read The Monkey’s Voyage. My main interest was driven by the fact that macroevolution and biogeography aren’t scientific questions which I’ve focused much on lately. But, ultimately the book totally convinced me that vicariance doesn’t explain much in terms of geographic patterning of biological variation.

To make it more concrete: the flora and fauna of New Zealand are not relics of Gondwanaland, but relatively recent arrivals due to dispersal. This is in my opinion rather less romantic than the popular view, but the argument and evidence offered in the book are pretty convincing.

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