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Originally Posted by Lonewulf
Even if we could make an animal that thinks, act, and is just
like another animal of it's type, and even breed with that animal? Not saying
that we have, but I think it depends on how you define the "tree of life".
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If we made it ourselves, and designed it to have a personality
we chose, and didn't use the genetic imprint of an exact copy,
then how is it a clone?
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I misread your first post.
You could have Frankensteinian spliced gene species.
But a completely new species, with for instance a computer-generated
genetic code, would not be related to any other animal, and therefore
would IMO not belong to the kingdom of animals, but to a completely
new kingdom. I suppose biologists would then have to come up with
some sort of genetic measurement to establish relationships, rather
then rely on decent.
Alien life and technological "life" would not fit in the tree at all.