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To: Ichneumon
How about "kinds" where variety A can interbreed with B, and B can interbreed with C, but A cannot interbreed with C?

Can you give me an example? I'm learning while I lurk!

813 posted on 12/21/2004 4:51:26 AM PST by shuckmaster
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To: shuckmaster
Ring Species: Unusual Demonstrations of Speciation
825 posted on 12/21/2004 7:07:17 AM PST by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: shuckmaster
[How about "kinds" where variety A can interbreed with B, and B can interbreed with C, but A cannot interbreed with C?]

Can you give me an example? I'm learning while I lurk!

Here's one of the more striking examples, although there are many more mundane cases as well:

Technical papers:

Ring species as bridges between microevolution and speciation (the Greenish Warbler material starts about halfway in)

SONG VARIATION IN AN AVIAN RING SPECIES


941 posted on 12/21/2004 1:45:56 PM PST by Ichneumon
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