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It's artificial, because it was crafted deliberately and purposefully to fulfill a need or want. Beavers weren't.

• ceejayoz 12y ago
  In that case, many human children are artificial.
  • juliangregorian 12y ago
    No, human children resulted from organic processes beyond the control of the individuals who set the cogs in motion, so to speak.
    • ceejayoz 12y ago
      As someone who needed donor sperm and a doctor to conceive, my kids are at least as artificial as a beaver dam.