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Ring species (en.wikipedia.org)
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[โ€“] TheIvoryTower 6 points 2 months ago

I took part in a postgraduate course on evolutionary biology, and we talked about ring species, and the problems with all the definitions of species.

The end conclusion most of us came to was that there is no generally useful definition of a species.

[โ€“] OhmsLawn 4 points 2 months ago

Fascinating.

I had never considered this before.