It can be inheriterd but blood is not a new trait. Both the albino and the hemiphilliac were going to get blood. The mutation only altered the blood they received.
That's what we'd already established you accept. The gene is not new, it is just a new allele of an existing gene.
I am not convinced what you have posted is accurate. How about a source. If this new gene causes a change in the species, you might have leg to stand on but it won't. The offspring will not only be the exact same species as its parents, its offsprisngs will be the same species as well.
What I hear you saying is that (even though you admit below that you don't understand the research) you know better than the researchers what the research shows, or should show. What I see is the incredulity fallacy ("I can't understand it, so it must be false.")
If the Wiki article is "above your pay grade," then an original source, written by the researcher, will be even less comprehensible to you.
Yes, the first several generations are the same species, or the new gene cannot be passed on. But if one sub-population gains a number of new genes over a thousand generations or more, and loses an equal number of old ones, and another sub-population gains and loses a completely different set of genes, the two sub-populations become different enough that a salamander from sub-population A cannot breed with a salamander from sub-population B. But both sub-populations are active, and genetically fertile within their own herds.
It is a gradual process. Enough genetic differences have to build up that the sub-populations will have become quite different. No one mutation can acheive speciation.
Okay, but does it ever resuslt in a change of species?
As I explained above.
Over time, as more of the differences accumulate, yes. Ring species show it happening.
It seems to me links in the message do nor link. At least I can never get them too. I will go back to the notification and see if I can get it to link. If I can, I will get back to you.
Most of that article was over my science pay grade. What I read did not mention a new trait reulting fromwhat they sai and they did not mention the off springwould or could evolve into a different species and to me, that is the bottom line.
To get more technical would not serve any purpose. If you believe all of what they said will result in evolution into a new species, that's fine. I just don't believe it is genetically possible. If it was, why don't we see new species today?
New species do not come from nowhere. We see speciation occuring in Ring Species. We see evidence of recent speciation in equines and panthers.
