Quote Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls View Post
Yes it is evolution.......evolution is the change in gene frequencies of a population over time. So it is evolution.....

You could make an argument that it isn't speciation. You would be relying heavily on a lab-based biological species concept......(which means you might have to consider a Ball and a Angolan python the same species)...would a wolf in the wild really mate with a domesticated dog?

Bottom line.....Speciation and Evolution are not the same thing.....
I don't see how a reduction in information is evolution.

For varying reasons, animals that diversify into different species are less likely to interbreed in the wild, though usually they still can successfully. Species isn't a hard and fast term (just seeing how frequently taxonomy changes will show you that!)