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So stuff evolves from other stuff to suit new environments like going from water to dry land to being able to regulate body temperature without sunbathing all the time.

So then, at what point would a mammal thing stop being a mammal and be as different from a mammal as a mammal is to a reptile?

going by that, when the form of reproduction changes again?

When someone picks a bunch of arbitrary distinctions between one subset of mammals and another subset of mammals and then a bunch of other people agree that those arbitrary distinctions are exactly the right kind of arbitrary distinctions to be making and they come up with a new name and make everyone learn it so their better-educated friends don't call them stupid.

Aaaand somewhat related

Well, current understanding of evolution is cladistics. Speciation is where evolution starts and various branches have traits, but you can trace those traits back to where they aro--

You know what. I'll let AronRa field this one.

I've gotta talk to my bank, so I don't have time to find the exact pinpoint video, but here's one and a video list. Dude's pretty good.

Falsifying Phylogeny

But he has a whole playlist of stuff like this. Seen here, so browse around.

I fucking love AronRa. That guy has the sexiest voice.

Taxonomy is the study of human classifications of animals, not the animals themselves. Something stops being a mammal and starts being something else when human taxonomists declare it to be so.

Lago PARANOIA wrote:I fucking love AronRa. That guy has the sexiest voice.

I actually found him through you. And, through him, a bunch of other pretty interesting Youtube atheists.

Thanks, by the way.

The next stage is robots.