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To: Echo Talon
Microevolution leads to macroevolution. The reason that the salamanders at the ends which cannot interbreed are not considered a different species is because each subspecies can breed with the neighboring subspecies. But, by the time the ends of the ring meet they can no longer interbreed - they've evolved apart. If you got rid of the transitional populations in between, you'd officially have different species.

Another example is the Greenish Warbler:


148 posted on 04/14/2005 2:36:36 AM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv

"Can not" <> "Do not"


205 posted on 04/14/2005 8:14:02 AM PDT by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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