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    This makes a lot of sense. Taxonomists are tasked with a difficult job organizing fossils into species. Its why there’s like 7 definitions of species. Off the top of my head: shape (morphology), sex (interbreeding), genetics (differences in key genes) with the majority of them existing to categorize extinct species