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.
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?