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guywithahatlast Thursday at 8:34 PM4 repliesview on HN

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ryoshoelast Thursday at 9:00 PM

I feel like you're conflating race/ethnicity with species when the two are completely separate concepts. There's a great amount of diversity between dog breeds, including wolves, but little disagreement that they are the same species. Variation between members of a certain species is expected

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tsimionescutoday at 6:52 PM

A species is defined by one simple thing: if individuals can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. There are complications related to ring species and few others, but they're not applicable here.

All human beings from all over the world can interbreed and their children will be fertile themselves (with the same rate of accidental infertility they would find in their own populations). As such, it would be completely preposterous to claim that there is more than one species of human on the planet today.

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OtomotOtoday at 6:26 PM

You don't seem to understand what species means and what race means, in biology

archonistoday at 6:54 PM

Please educate yourself about basic biological taxonomy before you accidentally and publically position yourself as a practitioner and champion of flawed race science.