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To: Doctor Stochastic

So scientists have agreed that they don't agree? I'm confused.


419 posted on 05/04/2005 7:38:13 AM PDT by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852

Speciation is a process.

The end point is clear...2 organism populations that do not interbreed in the wild are two different species.

Where the line is drawn during speciation is a flexible concept. Tigers and lions can interbreed with very limited success. They cannot do so in the wild.

In a ring species, the ends of the ring are clearly two species because they do not interbreed in the wild. There is no fixed point along the ring forthe dividing line, though.


420 posted on 05/04/2005 7:46:56 AM PDT by From many - one.
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To: mlc9852
So scientists have agreed that they don't agree?

No. Scientists agree that there is no single definition for species that works in all cases.

422 posted on 05/04/2005 7:59:34 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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