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A comment on Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms (2013). Parent comment

Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by dr_dshiv on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:13AM (#35724368)
Don’t forget all the thousands of species we’ve created ourself through agriculture! (Artificial selection)

That is another important source of aligned biodiversity

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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by lproven on Thursday April 27, 2023 @01:16PM (#35731378)
None. Zero.

We've created varieties, variants, races... no species. They can still interbreed.

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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by dr_dshiv on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:49AM (#35738267)
“more new plant species in Europe have appeared than are documented to have gone extinct over the last three centuries”

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2016.060...

From the Review article “How humans drive speciation as well as extinction”

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