To: Virginia-American; BeHoldAPaleHorse; ml1954; xzins; Elsie; blue-duncan; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; ...
It also said that "positive assortative mating"* was observed.
Ok above are two species of Helens.
Now do I have to lock you in a jar for 49 generations before you will demonstrate "positive assortative mating" tendencies between these two species?
Remember the experiment started out with mutant flies not normal flies. Let's say we did the experiment with humans and you had a jar of Helen Thomas offspring in one jar and a jar of Helen Hunt offspring in the other. Now 40 generations later do you think the Helen Hunt jar men are going to have any desire whatsover to engage in mating rituals with the Helen Thomas jar women?
Now, are they a different "species" because they don't want to mate?
1,359 posted on
03/02/2006 5:28:58 PM PST by
P-Marlowe
(((172 * 3.141592653589793238462) / 180) * 10 = 30.0196631)
To: P-Marlowe
So, for a good time, go to Helen Hunt for it?
1,360 posted on
03/02/2006 5:42:07 PM PST by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: P-Marlowe; Virginia-American; BeHoldAPaleHorse; ml1954; xzins; Elsie; blue-duncan; Alamo-Girl; ...
"Ok above are two species of Helens."
I'm pressing the abuse button. Do you realize that posting the picture of Helen Thomas next to the picture of Helen Hunt does not enhance the beauty of Hunt but magnifies the horror of Thomas. That alone should show the logical outcome of the "survival of the fittest". Who wants it?
To: P-Marlowe
Given the choice between mating with Mizz Thomas, or going extinct, all I can say is bye-bye
What a grotesque thought!
Now, are they a different "species" because they don't want to mate?
The criterion is whether, without help, they mate or not. The reason doesn't really matter; if they don't, the two gene pools are separate.
EG, ligars ond tigons have never, AFAIK, been found in the wild. But there are places (India, other parts of Asia) where their habitats overlap, so there is no physical barrier like an ocean preventing mating.
Therefore, lions and tigers are different species
Ditto for horses, asses, zebras, etc.
There are species of birds that are interfertile (like lions and tigers), but never interbreed because of differences in their songs or other courtship behavior. Since the gene pools are separated, they count as different species.
To: P-Marlowe; betty boop
Now, are they a different "species" because they don't want to mate?
LOLOL! And thereby we have "intelligent cause" as the best explanation for speciation.
Thank you for your post!
To: P-Marlowe
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1,411 posted on
03/03/2006 5:18:09 AM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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