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If two populations cannot interbreed NATURALLY, they are essentially different species.4. First and foremost is a definition of ‘species.’ In their 2004 book Speciation, evolutionary biologists Jerry A. Coyne and H. Allen Orr found that the most useful definition was that of Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr’s “Species are groups of interbreeding natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups.”
If they can interbreed with each other....they are not different species...e.g. the black and white Peppered Moths they lied to you in high school as proving Darwin: same species.
Bet the “is not” brigade, who hate criticism of Darwin, can’t find a single error above.
And, there’s more.
Essentially, but not scientifically.
It's kinda late in life for you to learn the difference, huh.