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Re: Extinction

 From: greywolf@illusion.eece.unm.edu
 >  Just a quick question - if species a evolved into species b, wouldn't
 > it appear that species a went extinct? 

Not necessarily.  If the evolution of species b occurred by
branching the ancestral species could easily remain.  Under
some models of evolution this is the principle way new species
arise.
 

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