Picasso clowns

[shifty51008]

A few of them are the result of a hybridization event (genetically proven) but only a small portion of the species we see now. Also that was a couple of million years ago when our ancestors were still some ape-like creatures in Africa.
Evolution progresses in most cases very slowly and 500 years ago the species of today looked the same as they look now, including humans.
Some clownfish haven't changed much for millions of years, with latezonatus being the oldest with about 8 million years.
Ocellaris branched of the percula tree only about 3 million years ago.
The most recent known branch off is between PNG percula and Solomon Island onyx around maybe 500.000 years ago.
The original ancestor of all clownfish likely looked pretty close to a mix of a modern day A. percula, P. biaculeatus and A. latezonatus.

BTW: with the exception of native Africans most humans have some Neanderthal DNA, which indicates a hybridization event circa 45,000 to 80,000 years ago, right after **** sapiens spread from Africa but before it spread to the rest of the world. (Edit: Since when is the scientific genus name of humans a bad word?)

That was a very intresting read, ty

Are there books that you know that talk about that kind of stuff that you would suggest? Ive really only read the joyce wilkerson book and it is very intresting but always looking for more

 

[ThRoewer]

You may be interested in this: what we really know about the diversity of clownfish

According to these finds there are actually at least 2 species lumped together under A. chrysopterus: the ones from the Solomons and another from Fiji and Moorea.