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Life Sciences => Cells, Microbes & Viruses => Topic started by: thedoc on 20/03/2014 02:30:01

Title: How is it determined that an organism is a new species?
Post by: thedoc on 20/03/2014 02:30:01
Stacey Rollings asked the Naked Scientists:
   
How is it determined that an organism is a new species? I had heard that inability to interbreed was one factor, but wolves and dogs can interbreed, as well as horses and donkeys, so that can't be it.

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