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Re:We don't know which species should be classed as 'human' by JulianMorrison on Monday January 11, 2016 @11:39AM (#10881451)
These definitions are only effective at referring to "species, in the present day" even if you ignore ring species. Everyone is always the same species as their parents. Apparent "different species" in human ancestry are simply artefacts of the missing data in the fossil history.
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