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.
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
is that what different species means?
I mean, horses and donkeys can reproduce with each other. Doesn’t mean their offspring will be fertile…
Explicitly yes, a species is where fertile offspring can be produced.
Well, most of the time, anyway. Biology is far too messy for that to be a hard and fast rule, as it turns out.
It holds up for most of the animal kingdom, at least.
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.
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.
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
Example: Grolar bears.