e come viene identificato il gruppo? in base a criteri di nostra scelta, dato che in natura gli individui non vengono al mondo coi cartellini "phylum", "ordo", "classis"
"We are connected to all other species continuously and gradually via the dead common ancestors that we share with them. But for the historical accident of extinction, we would be linked to chimpanzees via an unbroken chain of happily interbreeding intermediates. What would — should — be the moral and political response of our society, if relict populations of all the evolutionary intermediates were now discovered in Africa? What should be our moral and political response to future scientists who use the completed human and chimpanzee genomes to engineer a continuous chain of living, breathing and mating intermediates — each capable of breeding with its nearer neighbours in the chain, thereby linking humans to chimpanzees via a living cline of fertile interbreeding." (Richard Dawkins)
se poi uno è contrariato dagli esiti nominalistici dell'empirismo scientifico può sempre abbracciare il creazionismo





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