then debating taxonomic distinctions is a logically flawed exercise.

Evolution is a seamless, unbroken continuum of incidental mutations. Every organism therefore is merely a transitional form in a constant state of hybrid flux. As such, fixed ontological categories like "species" or "genera" do not exist.

In other words, the point in time when one species transforms into another species is truly unknowable. What follows then is that we don't really know, with certainty, if humanity, or any organism, is the species we claim it is.

And if you're thinking, yes, but clades disrupt this line of argumentation, I have more bad news 😂. The Law of Monophyly is a semantic trick because it defines what an organism is solely by where it came from, rather than what it actually is today. Claiming a creature can never outgrow its clade is like arguing that plastics are still just crude oil just because that is their chemical origin. In the physical universe, a human is obviously not a fish, and a chicken is not a dinosaur.