"I hope you don't think I'm trying to make some racist point here, I absolutely am not, but I take offense at the notion that humanity is "above" biology. that animals have"
I know you more than well enough to know you're not a racist. I just think you're making assumptions without grounds.
"I hope you don't think I'm trying to make some racist point here, I absolutely am not, but I take offense at the notion that humanity is "above" biology. that animals have"
I know you more than well enough to know you're not a racist. I just think you're making assumptions without grounds.
I share your conviction that humans are an animal species like any other. But while I'll take your word for it that there were at least seven human species, all modern humans, regardless of their skin colour or geographical ancestry, are the same species.
Would we become mutually infertile if enough time passed? The only honest answer is "who knows?" But again, for that to happen, we'd almost certainly need to experience some currently unknown evolutionary pressure. Or wait millions and millions of years, in which case the point is kind of moot, since nobody knows what could happen over the course of millions of years.
Humans aren't finches. So it's not a simple matter of assuming that what's true for one species is true for another.
Some of these varieties are known from a small number of fossils and so mutual fertility is guesswork. But, yes, there have been at least seven species of humans.
Know why ours ended up at the top?
Because we could imagine. We could invent stories. We could do fiction.
"I hope you don't think I'm trying to make some racist point here, I absolutely am not, but I take offense at the notion that humanity is "above" biology. that animals have"
I know you more than well enough to know you're not a racist. I just think you're making assumptions without grounds.
I share your conviction that humans are an animal species like any other. But while I'll take your word for it that there were at least seven human species, all modern humans, regardless of their skin colour or geographical ancestry, are the same species.
Would we become mutually infertile if enough time passed? The only honest answer is "who knows?" But again, for that to happen, we'd almost certainly need to experience some currently unknown evolutionary pressure. Or wait millions and millions of years, in which case the point is kind of moot, since nobody knows what could happen over the course of millions of years.
Humans aren't finches. So it's not a simple matter of assuming that what's true for one species is true for another.
Some of these varieties are known from a small number of fossils and so mutual fertility is guesswork. But, yes, there have been at least seven species of humans.
Know why ours ended up at the top?
Because we could imagine. We could invent stories. We could do fiction.
We could lie.