RE: Pre-Historic Nookie!
August 24, 2018 at 6:34 am
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2018 at 6:36 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 23, 2018 at 11:21 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Dogs are dogs, Khem. I have seen some strange combos on my walks through the shelters out here.... interbreeding is not a problem.
I just have a pet peeve with the idea that that HNS, HSS, Denisovans, Hobbits, etc are different species. I think we all evolved from Homo Erectus and the superficial changes among different human groups are the result of isolation in the Darwinian sense. Perhaps had it continued long enough separate species that were incapable of interbreeding would have been the result but we never quite got there.
All dogs are dogs, yes - and the way that we express that in taxonomy is that all dogs are subspecies, or breeds. All subspecies are categorically members of the same species. Morphologicaly, geographically or behaviorally distinct...but not reproductively isolated from each other, and this is also our current understanding of HSS, HSN, and HSD. Three human dogs, all dogs being dogs. Homo is the genus, sapiens is the species...and the third is the subspecies.
The idea that they were distinct species, ie, homo neanderthalis or homo denisova rather than homo sapiens neanderthalis and homo sapiens denisova comes from an older taxonomy that we've been revising in the same way (and for the same reason) that we used to consider wolves and dogs different species but we now know that they are not. We used to think there was canis lupus and canis familiaris. That's been revised to canis lupus lupus, and canis lupus familiaris.
It was a really nice house the Neanderthals and Denisovans had, there. Be a shame if something happened to it.
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