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> ...distinct but able to interbreed I mean people won't like the idea but that's not my point; what you describe variety in superficial traits while maintaini
by yabutlivnWoods 6mo ago
> ...distinct but able to interbreed
I mean people won't like the idea but that's not my point; what you describe variety in superficial traits while maintaining common traits
Applied to humans; skin color, eyes, dwarfism, hypertrichosis... can still interbreed
When it comes to categorization and taxonomy in leaky abstractions like languages the boundaries get a bit hand wavy and usually land on whatever fits the prevailing social desirability bias of the day
- like_any_other 6mo ago> you describe variety in superficial traits The same selection pressures that produced the variety of "superficial" traits also act on "non-superficial" traits - nature does not recognize this distinction.
- yabutlivnWoods 6mo agoYou cherry picked one idea from my post. I was not addressing nature but human social tropes. What is a subspecies and species is random gibberish of the living humans