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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/25/discovery-of-cryptic-species-shows-earth-is-even-more-biologically-diverse-aoe">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/25/discovery-of-cryptic-species-shows-earth-is-even-more-biologically-diverse-aoe</a><o:p></o:p></p><p>So what IS a species?  A level of distinctness of design, a degree of genetic differentiation, or an interbreeding population?  And what happens to Darwinism when these things turn out to be not particularly well correlated, in the way that the signs and symptoms of hunger turned out to be not so well correlated as the Cartesian model would require?  Steve Guerin:  if you want to demolish Darwinism, here is where you start. <o:p></o:p></p><p>Nick  <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>