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To: toast
A species is a population of interbreeding individuals.

Two separate species may well be CAPABLE of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring but if they do not, and according to genetic research have not for several thousand years; they are a separate species even if you can successfully breed them in captivity.

57 posted on 05/05/2008 1:02:32 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: allmendream

So, actually, it would be possible to a species to diverge into to different species, but then thru some sort of environmental change, become one species again thru interbreeding?

susie


63 posted on 05/05/2008 1:14:26 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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