solipsist comments on Open thread, Dec. 8 - Dec. 15, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: solipsist 08 December 2014 11:05:55AM *  1 point [-]

I think species can be paraphyletic. If we sent a family of llamas into outer space and they evolved into Space Llamas, there would be no common ancestor which included all terrestrial L. glamas but excluded L. astrollama.