o_O.Q said:
"'Race', just like any form of subdivision of living creatures, is a human construction" the labels we assign to things are influenced by inherent differences such as the obvious differences that allow birds to fly you can't really be trying to say that the differences that allow birds to fly are a human construction right? |
Bats can fly.
'Flying' is not the charasteristic that defines birds, so your example doesn't even make sense. The dinstiction between animal classes is made by multiple charasteristics. These are selected in the most logical way possible, but they're still artificial. For instance: 'not being able to fly' is not a charasterictic of mammals, since bats can fly. But if bats didn't exist, scientists would consider 'not being able to fly' to be a charasteristic of the mammal class, since there wouldn't be any flying mammals. However, all the other mammals would still be the same.
Living creatures aren't inherently divided into strict groups. Scientists made these groups up, and adapted the definitions to their 'sources' ( = all creatures in existence).
