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To: Aquinasfan
I posted you number 680.

In 706, you told Junior:

My problem is, somewhere along the line one member of the daughter species mutated enough to become reproductively isolated from the parent species. But at the same time that creature must necessarily be reproductively isolated from the other members of the daughter species, unless an opposite sex member of the daughter species mutated comparably simultaneously.
This shouldn't be happening. You don't refute. You just repeat, having ignored every correction of your absurdly bad strawman model of what punk-eek doesn't say.

You don't want to be like gore3000, do you? He's the poster boy for Holy Warriors who brazen too long and can't acknowledge error or even slink away. So now, like the flying Dutchman, he's condemned to twist in the breeze, pretending he can't see requests to explain his false claims.

Don't go there. Learn to read the other side, answer their questions, incorporate new information, correct errors, and be an intelligent participant in an intelligent dialogue.

720 posted on 03/19/2002 1:00:52 PM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
A fine example for this is when two populations (B and C) can't interbreed with each other but both can interbreed with a (presumably parent) population A.
I once read some articles about these species but I lost the bookmarks. Maybe you guys know the link or at least what sort of animals these critters are (I think they were rodents but I'm not sure).
723 posted on 03/19/2002 1:21:22 PM PST by BMCDA
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To: VadeRetro;Aquinasfan
I've mentioned clones evolve slowly relative to sexuals. There's a fascinating scenario in which early organisms rather freely exchanged materials through bacterial conjugation. Budding and other cloning techniques then produced a long stasis, ending only when "modern" mitosis developed, leading fairly quickly to meiosis, sex at the cellular level. That produced the Precambrian "sizzle" of suddenly fast evolution leading to the Cambrian Explosion of Creationist pamplet fame. (You still see people posting that all the phyla of life appear full-blown for the first time "at the bottom of the geologic column in the Cambrian.")

Vaderetro doesn't even know what the terms he uses here mean.

734 posted on 03/19/2002 2:54:17 PM PST by tallhappy
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