Funk and his colleagues saw a way to address this question by extending a method pioneered by two scientists in a now classic study of species formation in fruit flies published in 1989. The original method measured the way in which reproductive isolation varies with time. It proved to be very powerful and a number of other researchers applied it to additional species. This is one of the key lines of the whole article--the very link to speciation--but that's all they say about it. How can I understand what this new study means, if I don't understand the 1989 study? They don't give you much of a handle to find out more. It was done by "two scientists" in 1989, that much I know.
PH, do you have a link about that 1989 study? Icky, do you have a boilerplate about it?
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02/24/2006 7:36:43 AM PST by
PatrickHenry
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