A day has passed since I saw that man, but here I was, still thinking of what I saw. He was a siren, wasn't he?Ever since I started college as a Marine Biology student, it has been planted in our minds that creatures like sirens and mermaids were just made by figments of people's imagination. There was no scientific proof they were real, and their phenotype (physical traits) could not coincide with the concepts of genetics and evolution.Recalling what I learned in our speciation topic, only individuals of the same species can mate and reproduce. Although there were some instances wherein an interspecific sexual behavior could be observed between different species, their offspring usually becomes a hybrid that cannot reproduce and, in most cases, die immediately.So, I kept thinking, how the hell were sirens real? A silly thought came to mind, perhaps people and fishes mated in the past? No, that certainly was not the case because, first of all, humans and fish
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