At 10:49 AM 4/13/02 -0500 Robert Seeberger wrote:
>Bull,<G>, The way that is stated depends on sudden speciation, when in fact
>speciation is a very gradual process that could be observed only onder long
>term scales. There hasnt been enough time since evolution was first
>postulated to have observed an example of speciation.
Well, in bacteria, there has been plenty of time - in terms of sheer
numbers of generations.
I don't know enough about bacteria to determine how they define "species"
(like when somebody goes to the Mariana Trench and "discovers" new bacteria
species), but it seems like there should be a better example than just
"resistant strains" (which are classified as members of the same species,
IIRC, ala chihuahas and Great Danes.)
JDG
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