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To: Tamberlane

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Rodriguez-Trelles, F., J. R. Weinberg, and F. J. Ayala. 1996. Presumptive rapid speciation after a founder event in a laboratory population of Nereis: Allozyme electrophoretic evidence does not support the hypothesis. Evolution 50(1): 457-461.


288 posted on 03/09/2005 7:38:57 PM PST by Paloma_55
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The Weinberg et als.' paper that I cited documents the following direct evidence of speciation observed under controlled conditions: In 1964, Dr. D. J. Reish removed 5 or 6 polychaetes (Nereis acuminata) from Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor, and grew his sample to a size of thousands. In 1986, four pairs from this group were brought to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; the population at Woods Hole thus had gone through two bottlenecks, which are supposed to help drive evolution through genetic drift. In 1977-1978, two new cultures of N. acuminata were gathered from nearby Long Beach and Newport Beach, and grown under the same conditions as the Woods Hole sample. The three populations were later crossed, and it was found that the only crosses that would not produce viable offspring were the crosses involving the Woods Hole culture and the two new cultures. This signifies nothing less than speciation, and all in the laboratory as well.

There are literally hundreds of other observed instances of speciation taking place in real-time. See http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html


356 posted on 03/09/2005 9:42:53 PM PST by Tamberlane
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