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To: WhiskeyX
split away from more ape-like ancestors

What does that really mean? How does a previous unknown species spring from another?

38 posted on 03/05/2015 10:49:52 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

By accumulating changes in the genome sufficient to differentiate the descendant population from the prior population retaining most of the prior genome’s characteristics.


45 posted on 03/05/2015 4:07:07 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: central_va

Geographic isolation? Mutation?


49 posted on 03/05/2015 5:35:15 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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