Can/will scientist create new living species.?
They’ve already done it. First, you are correct that cloning does not produce a new species. And I should also gently remind Buddha Boy that a hybrid is NOT a new species … UNLESS it can survive and produce non-sterile offspring AND it cannot reproduce with other descendants of the same ancestor species. None of the hybrids you cite are examples of this. Speciation through hybridization is almost unheard of among mammals, birds, or reptiles, although it does occur in insects and (quite commonly) in plants. Second, it’s important to define what “new species” means. The link I give at the end gives an analysis in *excruciating* detail. But in summary, if you take some ancestor species A, and separate it into two sub-populations A1 and A2 and keep them completely isolated for *many* generations, then if some later descendants of A1 and A2 cannot interbreed, then they are two species. I.e. if A1-A2 hybrids are nonviable or sterile, then they are now different species. (Just as we know th
