Species
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Do Butterflies Challenge the Meaning of Species?
Hybridization, it turns out, plays a pivotal role in how life forms evolve. The tree of life may never look the same.Photograph by sezer66 / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . What is a species? It’s a question that has agonized scientists since well before Darwin. With some […] -
What an Extinct Bird Re-Evolving Says About “Species”
How could the same species evolve more than once?Photograph by Janos Rautonen / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . You may have heard the news of what sounds like a resurrection story on the small island of Aldabra, off the coast of Madagascar. Around 136,000 years ago, the […]