I want to talk to the first homospaien that ever came to be. Ask him/her where they came from.
A species isn’t an actual thing, it’s just an approach to classifying organisms that people find convenient to use. It has grey areas and isn’t always applied consistently.
It’s a little like the fallacy of the heap: if you drop a grain of sand, you don’t have a heap of sand. If you keep droppings of sand, you’ll end up with a heap. But then if you remove a grain of sand, it doesn’t suddenly stop being a heap: it’s kind of vague and ambiguous, there isn’t a definite boundary where you can add or remove a single grain of sand and transition between definitely a heap of sand/definitely not a heap of sand.
No one definition has satisfied all naturalists; yet every naturalist knows vaguely what he means when he speaks of a species. Generally the term includes the unknown element of a distinct act of creation.
Charles Darwin
I’m pretty sure most people understand what I mean; Let me talk to the first thing with human thought that lived in this on planet.
That’s still a continuum, but I get what you mean. I was just trying to explain their point.
I’d be curious how a homo from when we were physically modern thinks and acts. Or maybe right after a bottleneck. Or mitochondrial eve. You’d learn a lot about nature vs nurture.
A species isn’t an actual thing, it’s just an approach to classifying organisms that people find convenient to use. It has grey areas and isn’t always applied consistently.
It’s a little like the fallacy of the heap: if you drop a grain of sand, you don’t have a heap of sand. If you keep droppings of sand, you’ll end up with a heap. But then if you remove a grain of sand, it doesn’t suddenly stop being a heap: it’s kind of vague and ambiguous, there isn’t a definite boundary where you can add or remove a single grain of sand and transition between definitely a heap of sand/definitely not a heap of sand.
Speciation isn’t a one birth kind of thing. It’s a human categorization and has to do with populations, not individuals. There is no first human.
I’m pretty sure most people understand what I mean; Let me talk to the first thing with human thought that lived in this on planet.
That’s still a continuum, but I get what you mean. I was just trying to explain their point.
I’d be curious how a homo from when we were physically modern thinks and acts. Or maybe right after a bottleneck. Or mitochondrial eve. You’d learn a lot about nature vs nurture.
What part are you having trouble with?