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I thought it was pretty clearly defined: they product offspring which can reproduce and produce viable offspring among themselves but not with the original popu
by hayksaakian 10y ago
I thought it was pretty clearly defined: they product offspring which can reproduce and produce viable offspring among themselves but not with the original population
- gtremper 10y agoRing species complicate that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species A can mate with B, B can mate with C, but A can't mate with C.
- tgb 10y agoThe question of defining "species" was one of the keystone questions used as an example in a philosophy of science course I took. See: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/species/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/species/