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2025-05-22

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We want to tell important stories about our natural world, but some ideas that seem great initially end up being way too big to cover in a short video.

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:

- Species concept: A methodology for determining whether two organisms are members of the same species.

- Speciation: The evolutionary process by which new species arise.

- Polyploid speciation: Speciation that occurs due to a change in the number of chromosomes.

- Allopatric speciation: Speciation that occurs due to geographic isolation.

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David Goldenberg | Script Writer, Narrator and Director

Lizah van der Aart | Storyboard Artist

Sarah Berman | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation

Nathaniel Schroeder | Music

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REFERENCES

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Stankowski, S., & Ravinet, M. (2021). Quantifying the use of species concepts. Current biology : CB, 31(9), R428–R429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.060

K. de Queiroz (2005), Ernst Mayr and the modern concept of species, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102 (suppl_1) 6600-6607. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502030102

Shu-Jin Luo, Warren E. Johnson, James L. David Smith, Stephen J. O’Brien (2010). Chapter 3 - What Is a Tiger? Genetics and Phylogeography, Editor(s): Ronald Tilson, Philip J. Nyhus, In Noyes Series in Animal Behavior, Ecology, Conservation, and Management, Tigers of the World (Second Edition), William Andrew Publishing, Pages 35-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-8155-1570-8.00003-7

National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, Division on Earth, Life Studies, Board on Life Sciences, Committee on Assessing the Taxonomic Status of the Red Wolf, & the Mexican Gray Wolf. (2019). Evaluating the taxonomic status of the Mexican gray wolf and the red wolf. National Academies Press. https://books.google.cl/books?id=br2YDwAAQBAJ

Rothfels, C. J., & Otto, S. P. (2016). Polyploid speciation. https://escholarship.org/content/qt0s7998kv/qt0s7998kv.pdf