Grouping contemporaneous species into genera

a. is never a subjective process
b. can be facilitated by identifying which species can interbreed and produce live, though not necessarily fertile, hybrid offspring
c. is always easy and accurate
d. is problematic and therefore not a common practice of physical anthropologists
e. requires similarities between species in one genus and species of another genus.


b

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