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The Skeptics Guide #849 - Oct 16 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Species Don't Exist

The very concept of a species is an essentialist logical fallacy. Species are spectrum. There's no sharp demarcation line. We like to pretend that our categorization system, his boxes that we invent in order to help us understand in rapper around the universe, that they reflect reality. When they don't, because reality's continuous and sloppy and messy and fuzzy at the edges.

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