Re: BBC E-mail: Scientists see new species born

I'm not the right person to define "species". It appears from the article that the definition being used is that two populations are different species if they cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring. This of course doesn't address the question of how you define species for entities that reproduce asexually.

> Please define what a "species" is.
>
> This is not a specious question as it is almost impossible to answer.
>
> Michael
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> From: "Bill Hamilton" <whamilton51@comcast.net>
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> Subject: BBC E-mail: Scientists see new species born
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> > Bill Hamilton saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you
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> > Phillip Johnson won't like this...
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> > ** Scientists see new species born **
> > Scientists studying flies that live off rotting cacti may have seen the
> birth of a new species.
> > < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/3790531.stm >
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Received on Wed Jun 9 15:06:24 2004