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>>5066273
I look like this and do this.
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>>5066273
We’re never gonna discover cool shit ever again like mokole-mbembe and it’s just pallet-swap rats and bacteria from here on out isn’t it?
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>>5066313
>mokole-mbembe
That isn't real and never existed anon.
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>>5066273
I give it a B+. It seems like a cool beast
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>>5066317
that's not what he was saying, illiterate anon.
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>>5066313
>and it’s just pallet-swap rats and bacteria from here on out isn’t it?
Even those are dying out

>>5066317
I think he meant like prehistoric fauna in general despite mokole not being real

>>5066273
Cute little nigga
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>>5066358
I meant animals unknown to science or previously thought extinct yeah any of the above. Coelocanths, Bigfoot, giant ground sloths, some random shit we’ve never seen, etc.
IIRC wasn’t a huge species of never before identified whale documented recently? Like a beaked whale or some mini blue whale or something?
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>>5066273
MUNDO COOLO
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Neat. How long until it becomes extinct? I'm betting 50 years.
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>>5066408
why do fags say shit like this? Do you brainlets seriously think the world is gonna conflagrate out of the hubris of man's what... logging? Driving vehicles that use one mechanism of fossil fuel extraction over another? Not kowtowing enough to pedophiles in government? Just shut the fuck up already, goddamn.
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>>5066374
>IIRC wasn’t a huge species of never before identified whale documented recently? Like a beaked whale or some mini blue whale or something?
Yeah but that’s just a case of it looking so similar to already known and more common whales that when people do see them they don’t even notice they’re different. It’s only when someone gets a DNA sample that anyone realises they’re new
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>>5066492
>It’s only when someone gets a DNA sample that anyone realises they’re new
Which is even more dubious because different species used to mean you couldn't interbreed. Now it can just mean anything you want it to mean.
>>5066374
>Coelocanths, Bigfoot,
Bigfoot never existed either you idiot.
>I meant
You're just stupid. That's it.
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>>5066530
nigger what the fuck is wrong with your reading comprehension? He's saying
>We're never going to discover anything cool anymore huh?
and because he says one of the words your programming deems unacceptable you jump on his hog as if he's saying literally anything other than
>We're never gonna discover anything cool anymore huh?
like goddamn you're fucking stupid
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>>5066546
Bigfoot and mokole-mbembe never existed and never will be discovered Mr.Ghetto Ebonics. You're just low IQ.
Back to smoking weed you go.
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>>5066550
>Bigfoot and mokole-mbembe never existed and never will be discovered
This is precisely what he is saying and precisely what he is complaining about. I don't think English is your first language.
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>>5066530
>Which is even more dubious because different species used to mean you couldn't interbreed
And we pretty quickly figured out that was a terrible definition because of the discovery of ring species and a little thing called evolutionary biology
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>>5066557
>This is precisely what he is saying
No, you weren't saying that ghetto anon.
>I don't think English is your first language.
Said the ghetto Ebonics anon.
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>>5066559
>ring species
That literally doesn't change anything lol.
Do you even know what a ring species is?
How stupid do you have to be to think saying "evolutionary biology" magically proves anything?
You can't give a single valid reason for your opinions can you?
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>>5066565
>Do you even know what a ring species is?
Do you? I’m not sure how you can say that and imply that ring species have nothing to do with reproductive compatibility being largely discarded as a measure of species. Do a little research before talking about these things
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>>5066582
Ok, so you have no explanation as to how "ring species" and "evolutionary biology" magically invalidates the original meaning of species.
You're just going to do a pseudointellectual bluff forever right?
Haha, what a joke.
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>>5066550
this has got to be trolling
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>>5066374
>I meant animals unknown to science or previously thought extinct yeah any of the above. Coelocanths, Bigfoot

>>5066618
Is that "trolling"?

Anon thinks that Bigfoot is just as real as Coelacanths.

How much longer are you going to samefag idiot anon?
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>>5066273
>professional scientists whose only job it is to find new animals took 4.3 billion years to find this species
>people still doubt sasquatch is out there waiting to be found
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>>5066530
You’re a demented retard.
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Solid 8/10.
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>>5066317
>"That isn't real"
>"Never existed"
>He doesn't know
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>>5066598
>Ok, so you have no explanation as to how "ring species" and "evolutionary biology" magically invalidates the original meaning of species
I don’t think you know what a ring species is so I’ll make it simple for you
>population A can breed with population B, same species
>population B can breed with population C, same species
>population C can breed with population D, same species
>population D cannot breed with population A, so how are they all the same species?
The classic example of this is species surrounding a mountain range where each overlaps two species on either side of its distribution. They can each interbreed with the species before them so must be slightly different types of the same species in a continuous population, but by the time you circle around the mountain the differences have stacked up enough to prevent breeding between the first and last populations. Hope this helps
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>>5066598
you could’ve just read the wikipedia page on ring species btw. Pay more attention in biology class next time, you might actually learn something
>Ring species also present an interesting case of the species problem for those seeking to divide the living world into discrete species. All that distinguishes a ring species from two separate species is the existence of the connecting populations; if enough of the connecting populations within the ring perish to sever the breeding connection then the ring species' distal populations will be recognized as two distinct species. The problem is whether to quantify the whole ring as a single species (despite the fact that not all individuals interbreed) or to classify each population as a distinct species (despite the fact that it interbreeds with its near neighbours). Ring species illustrate that species boundaries arise gradually and often exist on a continuum
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>>5066598
>maintains fertility in your path
species conceptfags BTFO once again
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>>5066642
Pretty sure I used to work with the guy on the right
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>>5066757
>crickets
Yeah that sounds about right



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