>>646030Daily reminder that species is a social construct.
But actually, while species is a useful way of grouping organisms evolution is an ongoing process that rarely produces the clean categorizations that we rely on to understand the world. You and I both have some neanderthal DNA, but I don't think anybody is arguing that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens are the same in every way. If you really want a mindfuck, think about the classification of bacterial species in terms of the definition of speciation that I suspect you have in mind.
