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To: JimSEA

To be clear.

Species is easy, speciation is another story all together.

A simple search of the definition would yield results that show, based on your posts, that you have no clue what you are talking about.

Best of luck.


37 posted on 03/02/2015 12:23:26 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Zeneta

I didn’t review my last post and thus it wasn’t clear. Sorry. The definition of a species is animals or plants that can mate and have fully functioning offspring. When successful mating is no longer possible, you have different species. A horse and a donkey can mate but the offspring is most often unable to reproduce — a mule. Thus, although they appear similar and doubtless have common ancestor, horses and donkeys are separate species.

The missing element for understanding change is time. Most animals have very short lifetimes and they reproduce often. That’s a lot of opportunity for mutations and some drift. When you consider genetic drift and mutation over thousands and even millions of years, you can grasp evolution. Sometime back in time every animal and every plant has a common ancestor. Look up a modern (ie 2014 ) representation of the tree of life and you’ll see what I mean.


38 posted on 03/02/2015 12:46:06 PM PST by JimSEA
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