Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-10390252-20151221105858

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Except, Ben, as we've been told, Blake calls them different species. Which means they aren't humans with a recessive mutation. They are a separate species. Blake was talking in-universe and, in any case, isn't an expert. Faunus and humans alike think of themselves as seperate species for political reasons. The facts of biology indicate that this 'received wisdom' is wrong.