> To me, so long as members of each subspecies can produce genetically viable offspring, they're still subspecies.
This definition of a species doesn't really work in practice. There exists species (or in your view populations), let's call them species B, that are able to produce viable offspring with both species A and C. However, species A and C cannot produce viable offspring as the genetic distance is just too much.
This is easier said than done... Cultivating meat for mass consumption is an incredibly difficult and complex task, that by most estimates, likely won't end up economically viable enough to replace factory-farmed meat.
Frogloggers t1_j6h1lc2 wrote
Reply to comment by Ok-disaster2022 in TIL there are three species of elephants, not two. African elephants are broken up into 2 species, Forest and Bush. by lightsdevil
> To me, so long as members of each subspecies can produce genetically viable offspring, they're still subspecies.
This definition of a species doesn't really work in practice. There exists species (or in your view populations), let's call them species B, that are able to produce viable offspring with both species A and C. However, species A and C cannot produce viable offspring as the genetic distance is just too much.