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<blockquote data-quote="PsychoSarah" data-source="post: 65197627" data-attributes="member: 345531"><p>No, but you see how just dividing creatures by kind isn't functional in medical practice. As it happens, depending on disease origins, a kind based system wouldn't be predictive of disease patterns at all, nor would it explain why some animals, such as rats, are more likely to host diseases that harm humans without harming the vector rat. </p><p></p><p>It also wouldn't explain why pig heart valves can be safe replacements for damaged valves in humans (their hearts, sadly, are not). Would you ever guess that beings that weren't even the same "kind" could safely receive donated body parts from each other (we haven't really experimented with donating human parts to other animals so much, but I would imagine that it could be done)?</p><p></p><p>The "kinds" idea doesn't reveal the medicinal significance of animals as well as the currently accepted system does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PsychoSarah, post: 65197627, member: 345531"] No, but you see how just dividing creatures by kind isn't functional in medical practice. As it happens, depending on disease origins, a kind based system wouldn't be predictive of disease patterns at all, nor would it explain why some animals, such as rats, are more likely to host diseases that harm humans without harming the vector rat. It also wouldn't explain why pig heart valves can be safe replacements for damaged valves in humans (their hearts, sadly, are not). Would you ever guess that beings that weren't even the same "kind" could safely receive donated body parts from each other (we haven't really experimented with donating human parts to other animals so much, but I would imagine that it could be done)? The "kinds" idea doesn't reveal the medicinal significance of animals as well as the currently accepted system does. [/QUOTE]
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