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I do wonder if visiting alien zoologists would classify all humans as the same species. I know we like to say we're all the same - but humans hailing from diffe
by taylorius 5y ago
I do wonder if visiting alien zoologists would classify all humans as the same species. I know we like to say we're all the same - but humans hailing from different parts of the world definitely have traits which are advantageous to those locations. Evolution never sleeps, after all.
- neaden 5y agoHumans actually have very little genetic diversity. Compared to Chimpanzees we are all closely related. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2012-03-02-chimps-show-much-greater-genetic-diversity-humans https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2012-03-02-chimps-show-much-greate... Or dogs which are all one species despite having much more variation than we do. We are still a pretty young species with long generations, so genetic diversity is low.