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How about from an unbiased sight, rather than one whose dedicated to debasing creation?

His definition of species for his list is interesting:

'Behavioral isolating mechanisms,' he says, 'rely on organisms making a choice of whether to mate and a choice of who to mate with.'

If two individuals choose not to mate then, according to Boxhorn's definition, they are 'reproductively isolated.' And if they are reproductively isolated then you have a new species. A 'speciation event' has occurred. His examples fit this definition of species.

I don't buy this definition. Sterile children and resistance to mating with parents does not evolution make. Chihuahuas and Great Danes can mate, but in general they don't. They are the same species however, Canis familiaris. These dogs are certainly 'reproductively isolated' and they certainly do not 'choose' to mate with each other.

Help me here. Do you have a site from a College or University rather than bob's bar and evolutionary science page?