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To: betty boop

By definition, two populations are different species if a mating between them do not produce fertile offspring.

Horses and donkeys can produce offspring, but the offspring are sterile; ergo, horses and donkeys are not the same species.


205 posted on 08/23/2011 5:57:59 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: exDemMom; betty boop; allmendream; tpanther
By definition, two populations are different species if a mating between them do not produce fertile offspring.

So much for consensus in science.

There are two definitions for species going on this thread. Which one is it?

207 posted on 08/23/2011 6:26:44 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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