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Cross Species Breeding in fantasy sifi
The Corvidian:
The plumbing might be compatible, but there would be no offspring.
Nickeris86:
--- Quote from: The Corvidian on July 28, 2010, 03:22:07 AM ---The plumbing might be compatible, but there would be no offspring.
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your reasoning?
Apocrypha:
I think they might be saying, on a technical level, that even though the parts fit, the DNA might not be compatible to produce viable offspring.
Shecky:
Depends. Are humans and the others all actually one species? I mean, look at the wild genetic variation in the human species as we know it; is it really that much of a stretch to think that humans, dwarves and elves might be the same species after all, just with environmentally-selected evolution intervening?
arcanist:
its not unknown for two species to create a third. the problem is that the third is mosatly sterile. the onlys ones i know of though is the donmkey and the horse [mule] and lion and tiger [liger]. or you could make it the differrence between two breeds of dogs, but i think that that would be closer to the difference between native americans and aboriganal australians. hope i havnt offended anyone.
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