• FiniteBanjo
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    6 months ago

    Explicitly yes, a species is where fertile offspring can be produced.

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        6 months ago

        It holds up for most of the animal kingdom, at least.

      • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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        6 months 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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          6 months 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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            6 months 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