Can a new species emerge?

[Amalgam]

I wonder if we will create a new species.

 

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Can a new species emerge in today's age, not (a) showing itself for the first time, but (b) coming into existence for the first time, branching off an older species, and how long would it take?

I'm asking this out of fear. My cat and dog have been getting awfully close.

I'm fairly certain that new species are emerging all the time, especially if you count microbes. I don't think you have to worry about your dog and cat making something new though.

 

[527468]

You watch a movie and you stop when you find something interesting.
Is there a stop in the movie?

Depends on how good the movie is.

 

[Shaula]

Can a new species emerge in today's age, not (a) showing itself for the first time, but (b) coming into existence for the first time, branching off an older species, and how long would it take?

I'm asking this out of fear. My cat and dog have been getting awfully close.

A very long time, so don't worry. If your cat and dog are 'successful' they will only produce infertile offspring and they will likely be very special. And when I say special, I mean retarded and deformed.

I wonder if we will create a new species.

The closest we've gotten so far is mules. But technically a mule is not a species.

 

[Colors]

You want one. You know it. Twice the loving and none of the cleanup.

No seriously, what about like, ligers and tigons? The female ones are capable of reproducing... Or some really over inbreed dogs?

But yeah, I don't think you can really draw a line between new species and old species from an up-close standpoint. It's really sort of arbitary at best.

 

[527468]

You want one. You know it. Twice the loving and none of the cleanup.

I don't care that somewhere in another dimension is a walking pair of shitting asses, and nobody has been able to slaughter it yet. Or is that why they stopped making episodes? The fact that they require food and eat it implies a vortex within their core, thus a slaughtered ass will spill the feathers.

 

[wildcat]

Depends on how good the movie is.

Yes.
Nabokov said a good novel is about the stop.
So is a good painting.

Or good science.

 

[527468]

Yes.
Nabokov said a good novel is about the stop.
So is a good painting.

Or good science.

Of it control reveals itself.

 

[Mort Belfry]

The problem I always had with CatDog is that you always see them eating, but never does one shit out the other's effluence. Is there a stomach in there? Bowels? Or is it just a throat the whole way through, and if it is why don't they have the same voice?

These are questions that just seem to have been swept aside by the animators.

 

[norepinephrine]

The problem I always had with CatDog is that you always see them eating, but never does one shit out the other's effluence. Is there a stomach in there? Bowels? Or is it just a throat the whole way through, and if it is why don't they have the same voice?

These are questions that just seem to have been swept aside by the animators.

Hell, I've been mulling that over since the first time I read Dr. Doolittle.

It's just not right.

 

[Colors]

Maybe they're just uber-efficient. They use all their nutrients and expell waste all in gaseous form. Or as sweat.

 

[norepinephrine]

Maybe they're just uber-efficient. They use all their nutrients and expell waste all in gaseous form. Or as sweat.

This is similar to what I was thinking after posting - an incredibly efficient digestive system. One good burp and it's all gone.

 

[Colors]

We must find this creature and dissect it's amazing digestive system! Kill the golden goose. Lemons, submit the demon spawn for the good of science.

 

[Blackmail!]

This is similar to what I was thinking after posting - an incredibly efficient digestive system. One good burp and it's all gone.

Or maybe one of them has a very bad breath.

Ok I ->

 

[Shaula]

Forget the digestive system. How does CatDog have sex?

 

[Colors]

Spores.

 

[norepinephrine]

Spores.

Nah, oral.

 

[527468]

All the sex takes place in another dimension. That's why cat is always angry and dog is always happy. Don't you read the fine print?

 

[Synarch]

Can a new species emerge in today's age, not (a) showing itself for the first time, but (b) coming into existence for the first time, branching off an older species, and how long would it take?

I'm asking this out of fear. My cat and dog have been getting awfully close.

Species only seem distinct because we have such a small view of time. It is all constantly changing.

 

[Oberon]

Species only seem distinct because we have such a small view of time.

Interpretation of the fossil record seems to indicate that change happens in spurts. Perhaps that's due to environmental stressors.