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  1. Kirk Roth

    Hirundinidae

    An African or European Stonechat?
  2. Kirk Roth

    Hirundinidae

    You have to know these things when you're a king. I would expect it to be rufula - the same as the branches labeled "Kuwait" and "Pakistan" - due to: the usefulness of the comparison of that taxon to the others, how they present the table with regard to the other branches, and the ease of...
  3. Kirk Roth

    Hirundinidae

    I did not take in that same message with aethiopica. While the 493Kya can be considered relatively short, I don't think that is nearly as short for a common ancestor as 51Kya and I think that one of the points the authors are trying to express. I'm not a pro at reading cladograms, but the one...
  4. Kirk Roth

    Hirundinidae

    The paper says almost nothing concerning biological species (e.g. barely any mention of behavior or assortive mating). If anything, there is slight evidence against splitting - as they found one "gutturalis" specimen within the rustica clade; all other gutturalis are in the erythrogaster clade...
  5. Kirk Roth

    Hirundinidae

    Can you explain? I feel like this short paper went through pains to describe how they identified genes which moved back and forth across continents. I understand that you are supposing a west Asian/European and an east Asian/American phylogenetic species, but why that instead of three or one...
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