[evo.theory] This Week: Albatross Systematics

[Brett Calcott]

Hi all,

We meet this week on friday, 1pm in Coombs Seminar Room A.

A slightly different format this week. Geoff Chambers will give us a 
whiteboard presentation, and show us some nice pictures. Discussion will 
follow this. I have attached the reading that this will be based around. 
See below for details.


Cheers,
Brett




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Please find attached an early draft of our manuscript on Albatross
Systematics.  This is presented as very much a 'work in progress' 
exposed for collegial criticism and comment.  The first nine pages or so 
present our general case that species definitions have a place in 
taxonomy and that making the best choice of species definition is 
contingent upon both the mode of speciation and the available evidence. 
  This leads on to a synthetic approach to species definitions and 
recommendations for 'best practice' methodology.  This set of ideas also 
forms the basis for the Marsden Fund application that Kim and I are 
working on for the 2005 round.

The rest of the manuscript is a particularly interesting case study 
examined in this framework.

With the consent of the group I will open the discussion by talking 
about the first section by means of a whiteboard presentation timed for 
about 15 or 20 mins.  I will bring pictures of albatrosses and 
phylogenetic trees with me for people to look at.

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