What’s interesting about sex being binary is that biology is really messy and hard, and it’s kind of amazing that we found such a universal definition.
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fossilesque@mander.xyz 18 hours agoCareful. The longer you stare down the looking glass at life, the more of a kaleidoscopic fractal it all becomes. Even “species” are loose, funny things.
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 18 hours ago
So why’re you trying to put it into such a rigid framework if you agree it’s messy?
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
I’m doing nothing other than relaying how the field of biology uses the terms.
You’re also confusing biology being messy in general, vs finding one particular area where it isn’t
davidagain@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
You’re confusing your shit politics with truth.
mech@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Biology is the study of life, and even the definition of what constitutes “life” becomes very fuzzy when you look at it too closely. For every set of properties you can define that need to be met for something to be alive, there are edge cases and outliers in nature.
MathiasTCK@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Exactly. Ring Species are a good example
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
In biology, a ring species is a connected series of neighbouring populations, each of which interbreeds with closely sited related populations, but for which there exist at least two end populations in the series which are too distantly related to interbreed, though there is a potential gene flow between linked neighbouring populations.