This Jay Is Evolving in a Very, Very Weird Way

Interesting.

This Jay Is Evolving in a Very, Very Weird Way

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It’s probably a good idea to take a moment and talk about what exactly a species is. The problem is, it’s hard to say. A species is supposed to be a group of organisms that look similar and can exchange genes by breeding (a handful, though, reproduce asexually). Yet some species can mate with each other and produce offspring, hybrids, and while most of the time they’re sterile, two different species can also come together to produce fertile offspring that can form a new species. So…it’s complicated. Nature doesn’t give a damn about our penchant for classification.

This sounds very very familiar. Didn't we just have this discussion?

Part of the reason I posted the article.

NoCoPilot wrote:

This sounds very very familiar.  Didn't we just have this discussion?

I want to be sure I've got this right. The birds have shorter beaks because they've been fucking Neanderthals?

Way to take it in a weird direction.

Hey, I'm not the weird one. I'm not fucking birds.

I think rather than reconsider the definition of species, they should reconsider the validity, or possibly meaning of, isolated in this context.

If one is isolated on a desert island for long enough, that emu's legs start to look really sexy.