(November 8, 2019 at 5:35 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(November 8, 2019 at 3:13 pm)Brian37 Wrote: But there has only ever been 1 species....or...
How many species are there?
[b]Eight million, seven hundred thousand[/b] species! (Give or take 1.3 million.) That is a new, estimated total number of species on Earth—the most precise calculation ever offered—with [b]6.5 million[/b] species found on land and 2.2 million dwelling in the ocean depths.
www.calacademy.org/explore-science/how-many-species-on-earth
I think it's pretty clear that Brian was referring to human species. There have been around a dozen of these (paleoanthropologists are still having slap fights over the exact count) which makes him a lot less wrong. Not 'right', but less wrong.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
