But evolution is not a process of increasing complexity, nor any other measure of superiority you can find.
Faisal Khanhas quoted18 days ago
Our genus Homo contains just one species at the moment, and that’s us
Cathleen Guintohas quoted2 months ago
none of us is an island and we all live out our lives surrounded by other humans.
Wqxplayhas quoted2 months ago
and to my mind there is nothing more fascinating than the science of being human.
b1678190572has quoted4 months ago
he system was invented back in 1735 by one of the great scientists of the eighteenth century, a Swedish naturalist called Carl Linnaeus
Barry Anilhas quoted6 months ago
the humble and dull-looking lymphocytes turned out to be at the heart of the system. Not only that, there are three distinct flavours of lymphocyte: the B-cells make antibodies, the T-cells identify foreign agents in our bodies and the natural killer cells seek out and destroy our own cells that have become infected with viruses.
Faisal Khanhas quoted8 hours ago
After this we get to members of our own Homo genus, in turn: Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and, finally, Homo sapiens
Faisal Khanhas quoted8 hours ago
the figure next to the ape is an Australopithecus of some sort
Faisal Khanhas quoted8 hours ago
But if organism B can also breed with organism C, then that makes all three organisms the same species, except that in a ring species organism C can’t breed with organism A, which means they are different species
Faisal Khanhas quoted8 hours ago
If organism A can breed with organism B, even if they look different, then according to some biological species concepts they are the same species.