GM>You mis-understand here. I did not say predators create new species.
>Predators keep existing species from reproducing so rapidly that all
>others are squeezed out of the living space.
GM>Your argument is based upon the assumption that predation creates new
>species. This is not at all what this is about. It is about species
>maintenance.
GM>Once again, I am not, NOT extrapolating this into an evolutionary
>mechanism.
OK, predation is about species maintenance and not God increasing the
number of species which can live on Earth.
After posting my last response, I thought that a better test of the
hypothesis posed in your original post would be to introduce a predator
into a community and observe whether there is in fact an increase in
diversity of the prey species.
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