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Date: Thu, 7 Jul 1994 13:11:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Carla Holley <cholley at eskimo.com>

Mark Cottreau makes some well-considered points. In the case of the
warbler hybrid situation... What if (ok, I am not a natural scientist,
so pls bear with the choice of layman's words)... What if there is a
"switch" of sorts on the genes that help control the birds' breeding
processes, and 2000 years down the road, due to environmental conditions
of necessity, these warblers from separate (clans?) get together and
successfully mate again? It would be interesting to note whether the
resultant offspring would be named a new specie, or given its'
19-20th c. name.

Also whether or not this, grantedly hypthetical situation has ever been
observed. What about all of Darwin's described finches, for example.
Any news about further studies of them?

Carla
cholley at eskimo.com

There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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Shakespeare: Hamlet I, v, 166