Talk:Sympatric speciation
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[edit] Strawberry Evolution
According to Garden Strawberry, the modern garden strawberry is a cultivated octaploid species that resulted from the deliberate cross of two wild octaploid species, Fragaria virginiana and Fragaria chiloensis. The Wiki references do not indicate that the three cannot interbreed with each other. The garden strawberry, therefore, does not appear to be an example of a new species which arose by sypatric speciation. I confess, however, that I am no expert in this area. If someone can provide an external verifiable reference to show the Wiki articles are wrong, I will gladly conceed to their superior expertise. --Nowa 21:31, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
- Actually, what I noticed about this article is that it never really gives a clear mention of what sympatric speciation is. But I don't think a hybrid cross becoming a new species counts as sympatric speciation. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 21:51, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Actual description
While the information in the article is interesting, very interesting, there is no description of what Sympatric speciation is. Readers who come across the page after following a link, for instance, probably want to know this. Rintrah 12:55, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, I've read this article multiple times and have no understanding of what sympatric speciation is. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.231.151.178 (talk) 03:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC).
