Hmmmn well Cole... "temporalis" as a product of a secondary intergrade zone wholistically I'd have to disagree with... lol. Aside from that nice instigatory post! I feel more data concerning the actual migration of the varied subspecies to their currently occupied habitats lends some nice perspective as well. Factor in some cool avg. global temperature shifts and we may find the notion of a truly 'pure' primary intergrade zone to be a rarity. Imagine tossing a few pebbles on some calm water and watching the concentric rings meet and overlap. I'd imagine Shannon is indeed right.... aside from locality all we have are NA milks from varied places.



Where do you mix in taylori in this scheme? Or even celaenops now... I'm sure this will get struck up a bit next time we talk as I'm already finding my expression limited by my slow 'two fingered' typing technique! Anyhow here are three 'temporalis' that may in fact have three distinctly different evolutionary processes...

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