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Yes and no, there's a very blurry line as to when a creature can be called one species and has evolved to another. It's sort of like, you can't state the exact
by corodra 7y ago
Yes and no, there's a very blurry line as to when a creature can be called one species and has evolved to another. It's sort of like, you can't state the exact day when a creature has started their "adult" stage of life (including humans). We have arbitrary days, like 18 years old. But from a biological stand point, it's blurry when a person is an "adult".
So how much DNA of a species, in another, means it's "that" species. Or is it brand new and different? I mean, technically, we're more related to fungi than we are plants, by quite a bit. But it's easy to differentiate humans from fungi. Still, we're related, relatively speaking compared to plants. Does that make us fungi? Obviously that's bat shit absurd. But just because a lot of homo sapiens have 1%-3% neanderthal in them, that doesn't make them neanderthal. I don't think neanderthals should be taken off the extinction list. The same, we share 85%-92% of dna with mice (this number fluctuates depending on sources). Does that make us mice?