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>I struggle with the speciation aspect of Evolution. You might find that pondering the existence of "ring species" proves enlightening. It turns out that "spec
by dTal 5y ago
>I struggle with the speciation aspect of Evolution.
You might find that pondering the existence of "ring species" proves enlightening. It turns out that "species" isn't even a well defined concept when you look closely enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
(Also, you needn't capitalize "evolution". It's not a god :))
- esyir 5y agoYep, Phylogenetic boundaries and the clades are entirely arbitrary constructs. Useful, but don't treat them as though they have absolute meaning as they're essentially a discretization of a continuous process with all the limitations henceforth.