ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
It makes you wonder if the same thing can be said when two different races produce offspring. Neanderthals could be a matter of different race than Cro-Magnon.
That's what the teachers were saying when I was in college, that it would be more a matter of different race or variety (as in plants) than a subspecies. But that was a long time ago, and there's DNA analysis now. Then the physical anthropologists were just going by skeletons. It's hard to believe that the combination only "took" a few hundred times, though: there are quite a lot of "intermediate form" skeletons that have been found, and think of all those that were _not_ found, for every one that was (and may yet be). And breeding mules, who are mostly infertile, and from definitely different species, is really easy.
19 Sep 2011, 11:25 am
