short stubby fingers/long slender fingers
black faces/ghost white faces
giants/midgets
females with huge breasts/flat chested
Do they need to sprout a tail or grow a third eye?
P.S.
I've already asked this in the Biology section!
2007-10-29 06:01:58 · 9 answers · asked by I'm an Atheist 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To be a new species, we have to not be able to mate with the old species.
Think of dogs. Chiuauas CAN mate with great danes and produce viable offspring. The two look very dissimilar, but they are of the same species.
2007-10-29 06:05:39 · answer #1 · answered by Jay 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The idea of species is very hard. Ring species is a good example of how the definition of a species is very hard to define. If population A can breed with population B who can breed with population C who can breed with population D, are they all the same species? What if population A can't breed with population D?
But for humans to be a new "species" we just need to keep living. Eventually we will be genetically different enough from early, early humans, that we will not be able to breed with them. But we will still most likely be homo sapiens.
2007-10-29 13:08:43 · answer #2 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i was reading article in the news the other day where this scientist said that because of our selective breeding that the human species would split into two distinct "breeds" within the next 100 years or something like that. you would have the super hot breed and the gargoyle breed. the super hots would be like 7 feet tall and live 120 years it was kinda interesting
2007-10-29 13:06:32 · answer #3 · answered by jplynch82_2 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To a point where they can no longer procreate with other Homo Sapiens.
I do not know if there is a level of genetic drift definition for a new species.
2007-10-29 13:10:22 · answer #4 · answered by Simon T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question is moot. There will NOT be a new species of human because we are no longer selected for by our environment (unless they cook one up in the lab!)
2007-10-29 13:06:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Geographical isolation is far less likely now because of air travel, but we may choose to stop interbreeding across ideological divides, with the same effect.
2007-10-29 13:09:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I need a third eye, and female with huge breasts :)
2007-10-29 13:05:29 · answer #7 · answered by Thomas 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the general standard is that the subspecies would no longer reproduce with the other subspecies.
2007-10-29 13:04:21 · answer #8 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
what would u consider a new species?
do you think dogs are the same as cats? why/why not?
2007-10-29 13:05:18 · answer #9 · answered by Chippy v1.0.0.3b 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋