Archived Galapagos study finds that new species can develop in as little as two generations (phys.org)
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Archived Galapagos study finds that new species can develop in as little as two generations (phys.org)
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I find this extremely doubtful. This is basically saying a new species popped up overnight, out of nowhere. You had interspecies mingling which produced viable hybrid offspring and suddenly that's a new species? What about bottlenecking and inbreeding? You seriously think a whole new species starts off as a single "litter" of young from a hybrid pairing and it just balloons from there? If there were as few as 40 humans left on the planet, our species would fucking go extinct. Explain to me how these sexually reproducing birds are somehow immune to this.
Inbreeding is now "strengthening the development of new species?" So you wouldn't be able to consider these strange and contrasting features as genetic defects or anything right? Their songs don't attract the indigenous birds, so they mate with their fellow brothers and sisters, and we're simply meant to say "oh hey yeah, new species, this is how it happens!" There are a fuck ton of unanswered questions to such a bold claim here. Methinks someone somewhere is trying to make a big deal out of something that isn't.
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