Hi Jim:
> islands are evolutionary dead ends.
As a Conservation Biologist, I might comment that they are often wonderful
areas for DIVERGENT genetic evolution, leading to many subspecies and species,
and in rare cases unique genera. Plus it doesn't have to be a water
surrounded island. Isolated mountain ranges are also islands, albeit "islands
in the sky."
Gary Reese
Las Vegas, NV
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