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Doubting Didymus · 11-06-2002, 04:27 PM

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why such amgiguity, as if the species tend to "blend" into other species? Could it be. . . because they weren't separately created but instead evolved?

Or: that god's artistic tendancies are much more impressionist than cubist. They may also occasionally lie near those of Hironomus (sp?) Bosch.

Coragyps · 11-06-2002, 04:44 PM

Most of the problem with "a definition of the term species" is that the concept is largely an attempt to pigeonhole stuff in a way that fits our advanced(?) hominid way of looking at the world. Yeah, it's pretty easy to say that badgers and bears are "different" - and they don't breed with each other. But nature is much more complicated and messy than most of us like to think - try deciding whether two cocci from two samples of lakebottom sediment on different continents are really the same species or not....

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11-06-2002, 04:44 PM	#12
Coragyps Veteran Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Snyder,Texas,USA Posts: 4,411	Most of the problem with "a definition of the term species" is that the concept is largely an attempt to pigeonhole stuff in a way that fits our advanced(?) hominid way of looking at the world. Yeah, it's pretty easy to say that badgers and bears are "different" - and they don't breed with each other. But nature is much more complicated and messy than most of us like to think - try deciding whether two cocci from two samples of lakebottom sediment on different continents are really the same species or not....

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