Re: Molecular Dating: The turd that won't go away

On 29/06/2024 15:48, John Harshman wrote:

Google gives me nothing in a search for "isolation is the engine of evolution", unfortunately. You have to wonder why he posts if he's that uninterested in being understood.

Apart from JTEM Google gives me a quotation from an ecotourism guide in Costa Rica. I don't find it a particularly opaque phrase. If one was to be more precise one might substitute diversity or cladogenesis for evolution. In the light of recent mentions of the founder effect in quoted posts JTEM might be referring to evolutionary innovation, which is a somewhat more controversial claim.
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alias Ernest Major