Melanie is 5 years old and loves learning about animals. If asked, “Could you turn a snake into a lizard?”
Melanie would most likely say that:

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Melanie is 5 years old and loves learning about animals. If asked, “Could you turn a snake into a lizard?”  Melanie would most likely say that:

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no matter how you changed a snake’s behaviour or appearance, it would still be a snake and not a lizard.

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it is behaviour that matters for category identity, so if a snake learned to act like a lizard, it would count as a genuine lizard.

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it is the combination of behaviour and appearance that matters for category identity, so both attributes would have to be changed to turn one organism into another.

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it is the appearance that matters for category identity, so if a snake were altered to look like a lizard, it would count as a genuine lizard.

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