• nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    They do, I’m many cases the choice to assign two populations to different species rather than one is not clearcut. All sorts of weird stuff can happen, like ring species around long mountains :

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

    Within that species there are populations that cannot interbreed, yet there’s still gene flow between them.

    Humans like putting things into neat little boxes. Nature is under no obligation to oblige.