• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Yeah species is actually a made up concept with no grounding in empirical science. Scientists just decided to invent species to make their jobs easier.

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      5 months ago

      What defines a species is whether or not the offspring of two individuals can have offspring.

      A lion and a tiger can make, however Ligras are infertile, so they’re different species.

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        5 months ago

        Nah that’s not true. Haven’t you ever heard of crossbreeding flowers? Plus there’s an example very close to home in the interbreeding of sapiens and neanderthals