subspecies

China has two panda subspecies: One looks ‘more like bears’ and the other ‘resembles cats’

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Black-and-white giant pandas might all look similar, but there are apparently two different types of them living in today’s China. One of the subspecies from Sichuan looks more like bears while the other from Shaanxi has facial characteristics closer to cats, according to the Chinese state broadcaster. The two groups have not interacted with each … Read more

Scientists finally prove one of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theories on the role of subspecies

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Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the fifth of six children of wealthy and well-connected parents. One of his grandfathers was Erasmus Darwin, a doctor whose book ‘Zoonomia’ had set out a radical and highly controversial idea, that one species could ‘transmute’ into another. Transmutation is what evolution was then … Read more