The existence of “swarms” of related species or subspecies with near-complete combinations of morphological traits (“ochlospecies”; White 1962, Cronk 1999) may indicate that the terminal phylogenetic structure of some tropical tree lineages may actually be highly reticulate.

We started back in the same conditions, and for part of the journey ran through semi-darkness, but the sun appeared once again as we neared London.

It may be a vast waterfront fire, like the Staten Island ferry terminal blaze a few years ago that consumed acres of buildings; a supercatastrophe, like the Black Tom explosion; a blazing oil tanker drifting toward a pier laden with explosives; or perhaps a helicopter pilot has dunked in the river, a boat is adrift, or someone has fallen off a ferryboat.

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