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To: SunkenCiv; Openurmind; BenLurkin; blam; All

I don’t think hybridization presupposes the existence of two species. Hybrid corn or rose strains are produced in great quantities and they are still corn or roses. I’ve read a lot of rose catalogs and spent time in Iowa and I never had the impression that either corn or roses were different species. The same cold be said about dogs.


48 posted on 11/11/2019 4:50:52 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
All dogs are one species, and were selectively bred over a long period of time from their wild cousins, the wolf (and wolf-dogs are not uncommon). All corn can cross with all other corn, and was wildcrafted from a single wild species. Roses are a different story -- they are related to lots of edible species, but while I've heard of plum/apricot crosses, I've never heard of a rose/peach cross.

49 posted on 11/11/2019 6:06:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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