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To: plain talk

Here's one link.

http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/irwin.html

googling on "ring species" nets many more articles.

Since wolves can breed with some dogs speciation is not complete. That's why I asked you about fertility rates.
Lions and tigers, horses and zebras also have some interbreeding potential.

The definition of a species is a population that, in nature, does not breed with another.


329 posted on 05/03/2005 3:10:50 PM PDT by From many - one.
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To: From many - one.

As they can interbreed, I wonder if everyone here accepts a lion evolving into a tiger, or vice-versa.


331 posted on 05/03/2005 3:13:12 PM PDT by bobdsmith
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To: From many - one.
The definition of a species is a population that, in nature, does not breed with another.

That is not actually true. The ability to interbreed is often used as in indication but is not a determining factor. Ring species and asexual organisms demonstrate that the ability to interbreed is not an acceptable criteria.

In reality, there really is no such thing a concrete line that defines a "species". Evolution predicts that the the concept of a species will be murky and, in fact, it is.

334 posted on 05/03/2005 3:16:21 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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