CNN.com - Fossil skull fuels debate over human origin - March 21, 2002
An interesting thing here. The debate over what defines species is a facinating one, and highly important for the future of natural sciences as a whole. The point of the matter is, we make distinctions in species between types of animals that if we used the same standard to classify humans there would be possibly 10-20 species of humans. The fact is that animals, like humans, can have radically different physical apperances, yet be genetically similar enough to breed sucessfully, and even regularly across those lines.
It gets even worse when we do not have whole or even partially complete specimines of species, as in this case.
An interesting thing here. The debate over what defines species is a facinating one, and highly important for the future of natural sciences as a whole. The point of the matter is, we make distinctions in species between types of animals that if we used the same standard to classify humans there would be possibly 10-20 species of humans. The fact is that animals, like humans, can have radically different physical apperances, yet be genetically similar enough to breed sucessfully, and even regularly across those lines.
It gets even worse when we do not have whole or even partially complete specimines of species, as in this case.
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