When a Parent Becomes a Daughter

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>rao.3 at osu.edu writes:

<< Wouldn't the rise of new species be a better parallel to the rise of new
>languages? Ancestral species can exist at the same time as a species
>that has split off.

-- not generally.  Eg., we and the chimps (and gorillas and bonobos) are
descended from a common ancestor, and chimps are much more _like_ that common
ancestor, but we can't be said to be descended from chimps.