Discovery of 'cryptic species' shows Earth is even more biologically diverse | Wildlife | The Guardian

Posted by thompnickson2 on Dec 27, 2020; 4:54pm
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/25/discovery-of-cryptic-species-shows-earth-is-even-more-biologically-diverse-aoe

So what IS a species?  A level of distinctness of design, a degree of genetic differentiation, or an interbreeding population?  And what happens to Darwinism when these things turn out to be not particularly well correlated, in the way that the signs and symptoms of hunger turned out to be not so well correlated as the Cartesian model would require?  Steve Guerin:  if you want to demolish Darwinism, here is where you start.

Nick  

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