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well, one thing to consider... the concept of "species" is essentially an artifical construct imposed by humans in their constant attempt to quantify and qualify everything around themHi caco; :clap: nice observation, I've been wrong when I said mitocondrial DNA give code to a externar morphology. I didn't think too much when I wrote that.
In other hand, like you well say, one polymorphic gene in a mytocondria, only say that can be a posibility of a little diference between mytocondrias of a diferent population. So if you have a new mytocondria ( extremly rare just in a mutation of a 20% of 1 gen of 16,000 genes) maybe this mutation can make the pede death ( most provable) o can make the evolution of the pede, to a new sp.
The provability of this pede will be a new sp. is so low, that I can't beleave it. Is practically imposible. But who knows...
Cheers
Carles
"species" actually has several defintions... that is, ifyou spoke to a general biologist "species" might mean something a little different than if you were speaking to an evolutionary biologist.
so really, we should all agree on the definition of species and *then* we can reasonably talk about whether something would prove or disprove a species.