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Other meaning

Speciation is also a term used in analytical chemistry when the aim of the analysis is not (or only partly) to analyse the concentration of an element (e.g. sulphur) but to find out to what extent the element is present in different species (e.g. sulphate, sulphide, thiosulphate, organic sulphur etc). Although related to the subject of ion speciation I would say it is a different subject. Analytical speciation deserves an article and speciation needs a disambiguation page.150.227.15.253 (talk) 16:18, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tone copyediting

Hello Chiswick Chap, I appreciate you editing this article to resolve the tone issues. However, the article contains two violations of MOS:QUESTION in the section § Darwin's dilemma: Why do species exist?. One violation is the heading itself, and the other is inside the section. I wasn't sure how to resolve them myself. Can you try to fix them? Thank you for the work you've done. DesertPipeline (talk) 12:56, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Easily done; and the second one was in a quotation, so it wasn't in breach of anything. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:03, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

User:Chiswick Chap: Thank you. I just realised however that the question mark in prose is in the section above that one. Are you able to fix that too? Thanks, DesertPipeline (talk) 13:07, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Speciation examples

House sparrows have develped races in North-America. Muskrats are speciating too. Rabbits in Australia (source of the rabbits: Alien Species and Evolution: The Evolutionary Ecology of Exotic Plants, Animals, Microbes, and Interacting Native Species). Evening primroses. Possibly more. AspiringAntifragilista (talk) 14:24, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Artificial Speciation

As far as I am aware and from what I can find out there are no examples of artificial speciation. None have been induced in the laboratory, and domesticated animals all have wild types with which they can and do interbreed. All of the domesticated animals have or are on the way to being assigned species identical to wild types, with the possible exception of the Bactrian camel. I have thus removed the sentence relating to artificial speciation. I someone can provide good examples I'll reinstate the sentence with the appropriate references. Jameel the Saluki (talk) 12:47, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Animal husbandry

Discussion of introduction on Animal husbandry Ordinary Person (talk) 08:07, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Currently the lede reads:

"New species have been created by animal husbandry, but the dates and methods of the initiation of such species are not clear. Often, the domestic counterpart can still interbreed and produce fertile offspring with its wild ancestor. This is the case with domestic cattle, which can be considered the same species as several varieties of wild ox, gaur, and yak; and with domestic sheep that can interbreed with the mouflon."

This seems internally contradictory. The first sentence states that new species have been created by animal husbandry. The rest of the paragraph indicates that these are not new species as they can interbeed with the wild ancestor. I recommend significant rewording but I'll wait a little while for comment before going ahead.Ordinary Person (talk) 08:10, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]