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Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 4, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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Are wolves and coyotes even properly their own species? Certainly they can interbreed with each other. I think that's the real question here, not the farcical notion of whether there are different species of human, which I doubt you are asking in good faith.

Things get complicated quickly of course:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

I suppose we're lucky that with humans it's actually relatively simple, since we either killed off or assimilated all the various other hominid species in prehistory.