Human Race

[BigShot]

I was thinking about this today in bio and...

do you think every individual person is his/her own species?



Well i thought it might be possible. you know how almost no two humans are alike(excluding twins), so wouldnt that make each of them seperate species right? well thats how i see it. describing someone as a human is quite general since every person is their own entity.

 

[ORC-r0x0r-ROC]

Well, I guess it all depends on your definition of "species". We're all different, that is true but we are all very similar in a lot of ways, and if what you said was true then there wouldn't any such thing as a species just individuals. Classifying a group of people or animals into one species is the politically correct sterotype. Not many animals have crossbred, and they breed within thier own "group". Theres lots of reaosns why we're a species the main thing is that we're all similar, it's just a definition, the way it is, not anything to interpret.

 

[MacMan]

Maybe instead of brainstorming theories in biology you should pay attention more . Ask you teacher what the definition of a specie is. If I remember, it only has to do with mating and ability to produce offspring: something everybody has in common.

 

[Ciphus]

Ask your teacher this question. But I would say that you are correct if we are going to get very specific. Using that logic....everyone different animal would be a seperate species because not many are EXACTLY alike. This is just an easier way to do it. And I think Macman is on the right track. It has to do with how you reproduce or something like that.

 

[c9h13no3]

Oh man this should be locked hardcore. They classify species based on the ability of two animals to interbreed and produce viable offspring. Apparently you missed that.

 

[WildfireFX]

doesn't matter, people suck.

 

[Black Cat]

Species, i beleive it as just a steriotype so we dont forget that we are not all the same. Since we are human we call our selves people, but animals we just call them animals. We are classing our selves higher than them(which is true, technoligical ofcourse.) but 'Species' is what we are as the 'Human Species' but as individuals we are People, Persons.

 

[ORC-r0x0r-ROC]

Species has a meaning, and we can't all be a different species or it would just defy the definition we got a word for what we are: INDIVIDUALS. We all come under mamals because we (animals under the mamal classification) all have hair, have babies inside our bodies and all the rest. So humans is just another set of rules that make you a part of the human species

 

[killer900]

i was watching this show called "Race", and it was saying that there are is a sub-species of humans, and i was wondering if that is true. and since only homosapiens live now (there use to be more "different" types pf humans e.g. neandrathal), do yo think that might change?

 

[Above_70Percent]

species= Animals that have different genetic makeup

 

[ORC-r0x0r-ROC]

Yeah, I guess you could call homosapiens ect different species but there more like evolutionary stages of the human race. Wasn't there 2 "sub-species" of humans living at the same time at one point, I think it was homosapiens and neandrathals. I don't think we will notice any evolutionary change as it takes millions of years for this process to happen. It is easy to look back on time and say this certain couple of thousand years was the era of the "handy man". I doubt that someone could say that the era of the homosapiens are over, there has never been a evolutionary step in history so I have no idea hjow people would say at such a date that we (the human race) are now homo-superiors.

 

[Sly]

humans are one species. everyone is right, it only has to do w/ the ability to prduce offspring that can produce their own offspring. now go read ur book.