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To: Alter Kaker

"A species is a population that cannot produce fertile offspring with another population. A number of new species have been created in the lab, populations which are reproductively isolated from their parent populations."


If 2 humans, 1 man and 1 woman, are unable to have a child, does that mean that 1 of them is a difference specie and is not entitled to due process?

There is after all, a certain [percentage] population of humans that are unable to reproduce....

What about ring species, is it one specie, or two.
81 posted on 04/29/2008 11:30:24 PM PDT by Fichori (Truth is non-negotiable.)
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To: Fichori
If 2 humans, 1 man and 1 woman, are unable to have a child, does that mean that 1 of them is a difference specie and is not entitled to due process?

Genetically all human beings are of the same species, regardless of whether or not they're reproductively fertile -- science looks at populations, not individuals, and no population of humans is reproductively isolated from any other. Your second question is a legal one, not a scientific one. I'm not a lawyer but I seriously doubt you'd have much of a case arguing that infertile people aren't human beings.

87 posted on 04/30/2008 10:40:02 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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