Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-9062114-20140323022721/@comment-218.186.253.113-20140324090337

Just look up the salamander genus Ensetiana spp (not sure if I spelled it right). While its only one species in theory, the salamanders at either end of the range are so isolated from each other that they can't breed together, but all can breed with the ones in the middle, so they are considered subspecies. Could apply to men, mer and khajits too, men and khajits are too different, but they are both similar enough to mer. Lol, some crossbreeds include all bretons, gray prince, some dunmer house believed to be full of human genes, the septim line of emperors, pretty much proves man, altmer, orsimer, dunmer and vampires can reproduce together. Only no proof for khajits and bosmer, but I think we can make the leap that bosmer can reproduce with all, as they don't seem to have marked differences with men or mer. I doubt argonians can reproduce with non argonians, considering the reptile reproductive system is incompatible with the mammalian one (just go look it up...), plus ovovivaparity is common among true reptiles. You could even argue argonians have warm blood, considering birds are reptiles...

Skyrim cladistics just screws around with your head. Plus, some species can create fertile hybrids, but most of them are plants. So I wager men and mer are one species, khajits are another species in the same genus and argonians convergently evolved from intelligent reptiles