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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 8873566" data-attributes="member: 6787503"><p>I believe you're talking about elves here (because you're responding to a comment of mine that was about elves), but I think it applies much more strongly to dwarves and gnomes. Although I imagine elves to be descended from a different group of people (the first elves) than are humans, I imagine both groups to have come about through a single act of creation, thus constituting a single group. Furthermore, the biological <<em>ahem</em>> compatibility between elves and humans would push toward the idea that they are indeed the same species.</p><p></p><p>Dwarves/gnomes, on the other hand, I imagine as having been created through a different act and by a different actor from that of elves/humans, with said act of creation then being adopted/subsumed/given legitimacy by the original creator under the first act. The question then is if such an act of "adoption" is enough to classify dwarves/gnomes as members of the same species or even the same genus. Looking at the criteria for these rankings, I have to say probably not. They don't interbreed with these other groups so are not part of the same species, and they aren't descended from the same ancestral taxon so do not qualify as members of the same genus. I have to conclude that putting dwarves and gnomes in the same genus as humans would needlessly expand <em>Homo. </em></p><p></p><p>As a tentative proposal then, I would suggest that dwarves and gnomes be classified as <em>Nanus durus</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 8873566, member: 6787503"] I believe you're talking about elves here (because you're responding to a comment of mine that was about elves), but I think it applies much more strongly to dwarves and gnomes. Although I imagine elves to be descended from a different group of people (the first elves) than are humans, I imagine both groups to have come about through a single act of creation, thus constituting a single group. Furthermore, the biological <[I]ahem[/I]> compatibility between elves and humans would push toward the idea that they are indeed the same species. Dwarves/gnomes, on the other hand, I imagine as having been created through a different act and by a different actor from that of elves/humans, with said act of creation then being adopted/subsumed/given legitimacy by the original creator under the first act. The question then is if such an act of "adoption" is enough to classify dwarves/gnomes as members of the same species or even the same genus. Looking at the criteria for these rankings, I have to say probably not. They don't interbreed with these other groups so are not part of the same species, and they aren't descended from the same ancestral taxon so do not qualify as members of the same genus. I have to conclude that putting dwarves and gnomes in the same genus as humans would needlessly expand [I]Homo. [/I] As a tentative proposal then, I would suggest that dwarves and gnomes be classified as [I]Nanus durus[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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