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David Wake, a renowned evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, as he explains why members of the same species of California salamander look and behave so differently. It's a case study of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, and an example, Wake says, that Darwin himself would have loved.
Ring Species: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
actionbioscience.org/evolution/irwin.html
Potholer54's excellent video on the subject: youtu.be/Pb6Z6NVmLt8
You can read more about speciation here: actionbioscience.org/evolution/irwin.html
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/VC1fEvidenceSpeciation.shtml
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/100201_speciation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciation
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David Wake, a renowned evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, as he explains why members of the same species of California salamander look and behave so differently. It's a case study of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, and an example, Wake says, that Darwin himself would have loved.
Ring Species: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
actionbioscience.org/evolution/irwin.html
Potholer54's excellent video on the subject: youtu.be/Pb6Z6NVmLt8
You can read more about speciation here: actionbioscience.org/evolution/irwin.html
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/VC1fEvidenceSpeciation.shtml
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/100201_speciation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciation
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. All copyrighted materials contained herein belong to their respective copyright holders, I do not claim ownership over any of these materials. In no way do I benefit either financially or otherwise from this video.
