Posted: May 18, 2017 10:05 am
by DavidMcC
zulumoose wrote:...
The simple answer is that new species are not created when two different species combine to make a third, this is not a claim made by those who understand how evolution works.

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Almost entirely true, although there are a small number of cases of it:
Nature: Speciation by hybridization in Heliconius butterflies
See this Wikipedia article for other examples, mainly in plants.