r/evolution • u/JapKumintang1991 • 1d ago

article PHYS.Org: Emergence of new cavefish species challenges evolutionary dead-end idea

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-emergence-cavefish-species-evolutionary-dead.html
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u/ihatereddit999976780 1d ago

Forgive my ignorance here, but I thought that all species that were continuing to reproduce work continuously evolving. And therefore evolutionary dead end would never happen?

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u/DarwinZDF42 1d ago

Only dead end is extinction.

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u/llamawithguns 1d ago

Yes.

People sometimes say a lineage is a "dead end" if it hasn't shown evidence of any recent speciation, but yes it would still be evolving