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Does a shark bite hurt?

The burning sensation of the bite is hard to forget. “The bite mark's like a jellyfish sting that just keeps penetrating deeper and deeper into the bone,” Robles said. “It was terrifying.”

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Story highlights A great white shark bit Steven Robles near Manhattan Beach, California The 7-foot shark was agitated by a fisherman's hook Robles: The bite feels like a sting penetrating "deeper and deeper into the bone" There were 72 unprovoked shark attacks on humans in 2013

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Soon after the great white shark chomped into his torso, Steven Robles thought everything was over. “I really thought that that might be it. I thought I might be dying,” he said. Instead, the long-distance swimmer is recovering from the wounds – but might never return to the water. The trauma of the attack is still too vivid. On Saturday, a 7-foot-long shark near Manhattan Beach, California, became agitated by a fisherman’s hook. It apparently took out its frustration on Robles, who was swimming nearby. “We saw each other. It did a sharp left turn and then it lunged right at me, didn’t even hesitate,” Robles said. “I could feel the vibration of this entire shark gnawing into my skin,” he said. “You could feel the whole body shaking as it’s digging into my torso.”

The burning sensation of the bite is hard to forget.

“The bite mark’s like a jellyfish sting that just keeps penetrating deeper and deeper into the bone,” Robles said. “It was terrifying.” He grabbed the shark’s nose with his hand and tried to pry him off. Fortunately, the shark left on his own and darted away. A witness’s cell phone video posted by CNN affiliate KTLA showed Robles screaming loudly as fellow swimmers tried to help him to shore. Witnesses on the pier screamed that the shark was still close by.

All the swimmers in the water made it to shore safely.

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Police closed down the Manhattan Beach Pier, and it will remain closed until Tuesday. While shark attacks are rare, they have increased at a steady rate since 1900 “with each decade having more attacks than the previous,” according to the International Shark Attack File based in Gainesville, Florida. But the ISAF says there were 72 unprovoked shark attacks on humans in 2013 – the lowest number of global attacks since 2009, when 67 attacks occurred. The group emphasized that an increasing number of shark attacks doesn’t mean the rate of attacks is increasing. ISAF research shows people are spending more time at sea, which increases the interactions between humans and sharks. Robles said even though he thought he might be dying, his survival instincts kicked in. “My life was just a half a second from ending, and I had to fight for my life,” he said. Just before the attack, Robles said he was planning another long-distance swim. But now he says he might never swim in the open water again.

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Can all humans reproduce with each other?

The biological species concept Thus all living Homo sapiens have the potential to breed with each other, but could not successfully interbreed with gorillas or chimpanzees, our closest living relatives.

nhm.ac.uk - Are Neanderthals the same species as us? - Natural History Museum

Thus the problem is not with Neanderthals and modern humans and all the other species that interbreed with each other, but with the biological species concept itself. It is only one of dozens of suggested species concepts, and one that is less useful in the genomic age, with its profuse demonstrations of inter-species mixing. The reality is that in most cases in mammals and birds, species diverge from each other gradually. It may take millions of years for full reproductive isolation to develop, something that clearly had not yet occurred for H. neanderthalensis and H. sapiens. In my view, if Neanderthals and Homo sapiens remained separate long enough to evolve such distinctive skull shapes, pelvises, and ear bones, they can be regarded as different species, interbreeding or not. Humans are great classifiers, and we do like to keep things orderly. But we should not be surprised when the natural world (past and present) does not match up to our neat and simple schemes.

Behaviour is irrelevant here

But what about the archaeological evidence that is also commonly cited in favour of uniting the Neanderthals with us as Homo sapiens - that they had 'cultural' behaviours such as burying their dead and painting designs on the walls of caves?

Well, interesting as that is, it should be excluded from the biological classification of species, since behaviours are potentially more plastic, evolve more quickly, and spread more easily within and between species than traits based on anatomy and DNA.

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