Wirt:
EXCELLENT! I've just gone as far as the second page, but I'm MOST
impressed at the, if you will pardon the expression, evolution away from
convolution toward the elegant simplicity of Darwin's theory. Bravo for
Berkeley an the author(s)!
Now, please send an ecology version.
WT
"If you can't explain it to your neighbor, you don't know enough about
it." --Anon.
Wirt Atmar wrote:
Wayne Tyson asks:
Do ecotypes evolve into distinct species?
Yes. Sometimes. Sometimes not. Whether speciation occurs or not depends on the
degree of genetic isolation that an ecotype experiences over time from its main
body.
There is an excellent tutorial on speciation available on the Berkeley website.
The entire tutorial is called "Evolution 101." Don't let the cartoon nature of
the tutorial dissuade you from its seriousness or its value.
I've primed the tutorial to begin at the section on speciation:
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/VSpeciation.shtml
Be sure to pay attention to the various "causes of speciation" when you get to
that section.
Wirt Atmar
