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No, you claim hybridization, and said over exaggeration of interbreeding, despite the interbreeding being exactly what was just pointed out to you.What are you going on about? I didn't say it was mythical, I agree it occurs. Your defence mechanisms are so entrenched you can't even change your tune when some one agrees with you.
Your words.
“Interesting about the finches, and a good example of hybridaization thanks, I think you're a bit prone to exaggeration regarding their interbreeding but that's neither here nor there.”
What hybridization? Oh yes, because you ignore the definition of subspecies, just like they do.
I don’t know, you tell me what a messy family tree means if they are not all interbreeding?What? I just acknowledged it. I suggested that you are exaggerating the extent to which they are "all interbreeding". Are they "all interbreeding"?
Accept what the experts told you.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14181
“We find extensive evidence for interspecific gene flow throughout the radiation.”
Not just one or two, but throughout the entire group.
Apparently you don’t know what it means, otherwise you wouldn’t be talking about hybridization, which never occurred because they are the same subspecies.For pete's sake.
I KNOW WHAT SUBSPECIES MEANS.
Why are you just repeating your same mantra, are you incapable of conducting a reasoned conversation? For the last time....I agree certain "types" of finch can and do interbreed and that speciation through hybridization occurs.
Can we move on now? Any comments on the rest of my post?
But it's illogical and incorrect to suppose that hybridization is solely responsible for speciation, you seem to be placing too much emphasis on it for some reason. There is just as much evidence for the much more common modes of evolution - particularly allopatric speciation.
I notice the page that you posted also has an article about the case Central European Black Caps. Do you also accept that as an example of the beginning of a speciation event?
There you go again, not ,understanding subspecies, or even apparently what is meant by hybridization.
Those black caps deffinately mated where their ranges overlap, yes, the very definition of subspecies, not two species hybridizing.
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