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| To: | "L&L Knight" <>, "Birding Aus" <> |
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| Subject: | Backyard birdfeeders driving avian evolution |
| From: | "Ross Macfarlane" <> |
| Date: | Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:51:13 +1100 |
That's not "challenging the conventional view", that's called sympatric
speciation (as opposed to allopatric speciation, which is the result of
geographic separation). It is well and truly part of "conventional"
evolutionary theory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympatric_speciation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allopatric_speciationBut it's not unusual for a science journalist not to know much about science... |
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