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Nitram

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4. I suspect the designation is a bit speculative and not widely acknowledged among

Reply to csziggy (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 11:39 PM

Jan 2019

evolutionary biologists in the case of dogs/coyotes/wolves. There would have to be evidence that they were no longer mating with dogs, coyotes, and wolves. Note that the requirement is "...the differences in number and arrangement of chromosomes is too great..." There is no evidence that threshold has been reached.

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Isn't this technically a "hybrid" rather than a new species? I believe a species is defined as Nitram Jan 2019 #1

There is such a thing as "Hybrid speciation" csziggy Jan 2019 #2

I suspect the designation is a bit speculative and not widely acknowledged among Nitram Jan 2019 #4

Lowered expectations. LakeSuperiorView Jan 2019 #3