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The last C&C meeting for 2016 will be held this week.

For discussion I am circulating a recent paper by deBaets et al suggesting a new approach to calibrating molecular clocks using tectonic events and taking into account the dispersal ability of organisms.

De Baets K, Antonelli A, Donoghue PCJ. 2016 Tectonic blocks and molecular clocks. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 371: 20160098. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0098

Meet at University House, Fellows Bar area at 5:30 pm.

Coopers and Cladistics is a long-running evolutionary biology discussion group held every second Thursday at University House, ANU. Please contact Mike Crisp if you would like to be included on the C&C email list.