Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-24891101-20151231042022

Jumping back on the species thing, I will submit that at that level of similarity, on that short of timescale, the biological species concept gets a bit... fuzzy. It's debateable whether Neanderthals were a seperate species or a subspecies of Homo sapiens, for instance, and we know we interbred with them successfully. I'd call the Faunus a subspecies. Blake's not a biologist let alone a physical anthropologist; she's not responsible for being up to date on the current literature.