• VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Well, most of the time, anyway. Biology is far too messy for that to be a hard and fast rule, as it turns out.

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      1 month 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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        24 days 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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          24 days 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