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Hybridization is actually a pretty interesting hypothesis for species differentiation in higher vertebrates, given that generations are often very long, hinderi
by jvm 13y ago
Hybridization is actually a pretty interesting hypothesis for species differentiation in higher vertebrates, given that generations are often very long, hindering traditional accounts of evolution-through-mutation.
- sageikosa 13y agoRecombination occurs very time a new sex cell is produced during the crossing over event, Dawkins dispels the random mutation as the only means of genetic shift very early in his book "The Selfish Gene" as the crossing over process can split chromosomes mid-gene for longer, more complex DNA sequences.