Naming All the Animals — What is a “Species” Anyway?

Jennifer R. Povey
5 min readFeb 12, 2020
Photo by Kevin Jackson on Unsplash

This post was triggered by an article that said that the Northwestern crow and the American crow are, well. Interbreeding so much that they are no longer separate species.

The fact is that “species” is a kind of arbitrary designation.

What is the Traditional Definition of Species?

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Jennifer R. Povey

I write about fantasy, science fiction and horror, LGBT issues, travel, and social issues.