Do I have to know who and where the specific person I want to talk to is/was?

If not: I want to talk to the first homospaien that ever came to be. Ask him/her where they came from.

I want to talk to the first homospaien that ever came to be. Ask him/her where they came from.

A species isn’t an actual thing, it’s just an approach to classifying organisms that people find convenient to use. It has grey areas and isn’t always applied consistently.

It’s a little like the fallacy of the heap: if you drop a grain of sand, you don’t have a heap of sand. If you keep droppings of sand, you’ll end up with a heap. But then if you remove a grain of sand, it doesn’t suddenly stop being a heap: it’s kind of vague and ambiguous, there isn’t a definite boundary where you can add or remove a single grain of sand and transition between definitely a heap of sand/definitely not a heap of sand.

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?