Danes

... thought that came to my mind was the sumo wrestlers, and how they are actually breed to be so big, in their cultural evolution. Russians, Swedes, Danes, and Finnish are all big from being in the harsh frozen environment, and their cultural evolution that came from that. I can think of different ...

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... defintion, two populations are considered seperate species if they cannot or do not interbreed in the wild. If you had a population of Great Danes and a population of Chihuahuas living on some island, they would have to be considered seperate species according to this defintion because they ...

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... defintion, two populations are considered seperate species if they cannot or do not interbreed in the wild. If you had a population of Great Danes and a population of Chihuahuas living on some island, they would have to be considered seperate species according to this defintion because they ...

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Thanks Jackbean. I realise Chihuahua's and Great Danes are breeds of dogs. It's just that variation in dog breeds is often used as an example to demonstrate evolution at work when a selection agency (in this case artificial selection) acts on the ...

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... into the wild (and for some odd reason the chihuahua managed to survive there), they'd already be half way in their progress to new species: the danes would no doubt hunt bigger prey and mate with others of their kind and the chihuahua would eat, what, mice? And have offspring with other chihuahuas. ...

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