Speciation: Of Ligers & Men – Crash Course Biology #15

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Hank explains speciation – the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise – in terms of finches, ligers, mules, and dogs.

Table of Contents
1) Species 0:30
2) Hybrids 1:52
3) Reproductive Isolation 2:48
a) Post-Zygotic 3:31
b) Pre-Zygotic 3:51
4) Allopatric Speciation 4:23
5) Sympatric Speciation 6:03
6) Biolography 6:32
7) Dogs 8:37

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33 Comments

  1. i wonder if it would be possible to artificially genetically isolate dogs enough to the point where they become different species…

  2. I’m curious about why a bird song would deter or attract certain birds while dogs who look completely different may still mate together? It seems with the Galapagos Finches that ALL of the new species began to only mate with birds with the new bird call, is that so? Why? Is there any scientific logic to behavior?

  3. You missed the fact that the Biological Species Concept or BSC is actually inadequate for describing most living things and it is simply applied pragmatically, in conjunction with alternative Species concepts, such as the Evolutionary Species Concept or the Phylogenetic Species Concept, etc.

  4. i was checking wikipedia about ligers and i saw this-
    According to Wild Cats of the World (1975) by C. A. W. Guggisberg, ligers and tigons were long thought to be sterile; however, in 1943, a fifteen-year-old hybrid between a lion and an 'Island' tiger was successfully mated with a lion at the Munich Hellabrunn Zoo. The female cub, though of delicate health, was raised to adulthood.

  5. Speciation: 2 species of the same kind, can give birth to a species, completely different from the one that procreated it?

    I will believe when your mother gives birth to a cow.

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