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syntheticassault t1_itxaypg wrote

Reply to comment by Peasant_hacking in Ask Anything Wednesday - Biology, Chemistry, Neuroscience, Medicine, Psychology by AutoModerator

Probably never because you would need an isolated population for many generations. Like 10-100 thousand years of an isolated population.

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Peasant_hacking t1_itxbfrn wrote

so mutations in not isolated population isnt enough?

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atomfullerene t1_iu02vsg wrote

generally speaking, if populations aren't isolated then mutations will eventually spread across the whole species, so you don't get divergence between different populations.

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