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To: Old Professer

Bad math. A species may have a founding individual who is an ancestor of every member of the species, but not necessarily a "founding pair" who are the ONLY ancestors of the species alive at the time. The founding individual may carry a mutation characteristic to the new species, which every member of the species has, but MANY other individuals alive at the time of the founding individual could still contribute to the gene pool of the species. That is because the SPECIATION (reproductive isolation from the predecessor species) doesn't occur at the time of the founding individual, but later.


23 posted on 06/18/2004 12:02:23 AM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
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To: VeritatisSplendor

There's got to be one turtle on the bottom.


24 posted on 06/18/2004 10:33:41 AM PDT by Old Professer (lust; pure, visceral groin-grinding, sweat-popping, heart-pounding staccato bursts of shooting stars)
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To: VeritatisSplendor
That is because the SPECIATION (reproductive isolation from the predecessor species) doesn't occur at the time of the founding individual, but later.

Simple tautology by way of deduction.

25 posted on 06/18/2004 10:34:59 AM PDT by Old Professer (lust; pure, visceral groin-grinding, sweat-popping, heart-pounding staccato bursts of shooting stars)
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