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Why aren't racially mixed people sterile?

today in biology class our teacher told us that if two different species like a horse and a donkey mate, the offspring is sterile.

if this is so, how was barack obama able to have children if he had a white mother and a black father, both different species.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago
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    Because humans are all one species.

    Humans are actually very inbred for mammals, we're all genetically 99.99% the same. Race isn't biological, it's mostly social and cultural.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Racially different people are not a different species. Their makeup genetically is the same if you're a black person as if you're a white person there is a few minor differences as far as appearance and shape here and there but no color of man or race of man is a separate species they can interbreed with any other human being.

  • 2 years ago

    Humans are a species on their own. So... You answered your own question.

  • Lôn
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    There is a difference between 'species' and 'race'. That's why bulldog and a labrador can produce offspring....breeds and species are not the same either.

    A cat and a dog can't produce offspring.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Both are **** sapiens, not different species.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    https://www.google.com/search?q=blacks+more+ape+li...

    Evolution makes people into fools. There are plenty of people who believe that black people are less evolved than white people, and are more like their ape ancestors. When in reality, pigmentation has to do with the sun and the built-in ability of the body to utilize Vitamin D. Losing this ability is called genetic entropy, it is not evolution. Humans are humans, we can be segregated and isolated from each other, interbreeding among the same group of people over and over again producing similar traits that are common among "races/ethnicities" -- but we don't cease to be any more or less human if we live in different regions of the world. We have different cultures, customs..... but we are human.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Either you failed biology or biology failed you. Horse and donkey belongs to different species and have different number of chromosomes. Since they have different number of chromosomes, the offspring will be sterile because of the extra chromosomes. Humans are the same species and have the same number of chromosomes so they can reproduce non-sterile babies.

    Blacks and whites are like different breeds of dogs. You can mate a poodle with a Labrador and the puppy will be able to reproduce.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Kevin, we all know you are a black troll who posts these kind of questions everyday.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    WTF - The species is human either way!

    F*@king azzhole racist!

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