The Ancient Girl Whose DNA Revealed Her Parents Were Two Different Human Species
The discovery of Denny raises philosophical questions that extend beyond biology and into territory that science alone cannot fully address.
What does it mean for a child to be the product of two “different species”?
The language of species is a human construct — a category that biologists impose on the continuous, messy process of evolution to make sense of the diversity of life.
Denny herself, had she been capable of any kind of self-reflection, would not have understood herself as a hybrid species.
She would have understood herself as whatever she was: a person, a member of a family, a participant in a social world.
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