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From: Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. (Genesis 20:2)

Lesser black-backed gulls cannot interbreed with herring gulls in Britain. However, they are able to mate with their neighbouring continental black-backed gulls and these gulls with their neighbours and so on and so forth. This interbreeding continues to connect populations of gulls around the North Pole via Siberia to North America and back again to Britain. According to taxonomic rules these birds should then share the same name and species allocation. However, this ...

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