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Old 08-28-2007, 12:14 AM
luckyme luckyme is offline
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Default Re: Speciies? you gotta be kidding.

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Just to be clear, you agree that if we took a census of all the sexually reproducing multicelled organisms on the planet (species for other organisms is a whole other, ugly question) most of them could be classified into distinct, interbreeding groups that are infertile with other groups?

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We could do that with "has more than 50% brown pigment" or "more than 6 legs". Not trivializing the usefulness of the interbreeding constraint, but it is arbitrary nonetheless. I'm not sure why that fact is bothersome. I'd be interested in your expansion on that reasoning.

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