[Skidoo]

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Selection, like something else I won't mention, happens.

It's the notion of speciation that's got issues with logic.

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But you said populations could become mutually infertile with each other.
(That's what speciation is)

And what's the something you won't mention?

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Actually, I totally agree with him. Speciation really is a logically meaningless distinction. I mean, unless 'species' only means EXACTLY cannot mate with any other species. But even thats iffy, they can mate, with varying success, some of the times.

Calling two different things different species is a (nearly completely) arbitrary distinction. If that was Skidoo's point (I doubt it was) then I agree completely.

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A larger point is that speciation, defined as the production of a new group with which the original is not mutually fertile, is essential to the supposed process of evolution.

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but you've been preaching on the development of infertility the whole thread.

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Let's not get carried away with metaphors.