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To: Tribune7
There are lots of related creatures that can't interbreed -- housecats and tigers, for instance. But at what point does the seed of one species become incapable of fertilizing the egg of another?

This is a mistaken question, fostered by the iniquitous habits of zoologists to earn their keep by classifying the snot out of anything they see. There is no such point--there is just a cloud of probability densities overhanging the question. The probability that a POPULATION will produce viable offspring with another POPULATION diminishes over time. There is not a biologically functional on/off switch that delineates the boundary crossing between species--the odds of success just keep diminishing with time since biological distinction occured.

633 posted on 06/15/2002 10:46:11 PM PDT by donh
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To: donh
This is a mistaken question,

WHAT? If macroevolution is true, then what I described must have occurred. (Now you are going to ask me for proof of that postulate.)

637 posted on 06/15/2002 11:10:23 PM PDT by Tribune7
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