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What's the rate (if known) of generation of new species? ( randomly, i thought of that while thinking like someone who wrote a parallel (and parallelizing) gar
by jjtheblunt 5y ago
What's the rate (if known) of generation of new species?
( randomly, i thought of that while thinking like someone who wrote a parallel (and parallelizing) garbage collector before )
- culi 5y agoThis is a little unanswerable in the same way questions about how many languages there are are unanswerable. The way taxonomists decide what makes two different patterns of life separate species varies drastically across for example plants and animals (fungi are especially messy). Different standards are used even within botanical taxonomy across different families. Even measures of phylogenetic differences have big limitations and are applied differently Also to touch just a tiny bit on just how messy this question can get with fungi: If you take certain species of fungi, put them in some soil they're really not adapted for, they will literally increase the rates of horizontal gene transfer and start borrowing genes from soil bacteria there in order to quickly evolve themselves and better adapt to that soil https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5095653/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5095653/ Certain parasitic plants may act similarly: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/45/E7010 https://www.pnas.org/content/113/45/E7010
- jjtheblunt 5y agothank you; i learned from your comment which is great