ABSTRACT

Assumption 5: Redening the Problem Can Solve It ................................... 237 14.3 Fossils and Taxon Age-Rosen Inhibiting Evolutionary Assumption 7:

Fossils Specify the Age of Their Including Taxon .......................................242 14.4 Ancestors and Origins in Biogeography-Rosen Inhibiting

Evolutionary Assumption 5: It Is Important to Search for Ancestors, and Biogeography Inhibiting Assumption 3: Centers of Origin

Can Be Found ...............................................................................................244 14.4.1 The Persistence of Centers of Origin ................................................246 14.4.2 Moving Taxa or Moving Tectonics? ................................................. 247 14.4.3 Areas of Endemism ..........................................................................248 14.4.4 Methods in Reconstruction of Ancestral Areas ...............................249 14.4.5 Pattern vs. No Pattern; Relationships vs. Origins ............................. 251

14.5 Conclusion .................................................................................................... 253 Acknowledgments ..................................................................................................256 References ..............................................................................................................256