The spanning-tree approach to biogeography developed by Craw and Page offers results even when little or no cladistic information about taxonomic relationships is available. Because relationships are effectively resolved on the basis of present-day geographic proximity, however, those results may frequently be artifacts of the method.
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Platnick et al. (1988) studied this question.
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