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Biology is what happens when you try to decompile code written in assembler into OO language.
👤ajuc🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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Also, you're a fish. When people talk about fish, they mean "fish that aren't tetrapods", because cladistically speaking, tetrapods (birds, reptiles, mammals) are fish too.
👤medstrom🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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A good reminder that the map is not the territory. Lately I've started to see more and more "categories" in general as a very human construct, probably made to save on processing power when thinking about things. Reality is hard and very complex and you can't be thinking about all the details all the time.
👤Zababa🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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The term for these sorts of categories is called "Wastebin Taxon"
👤Areibman🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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What's the difference between a ruminant and an ungulate?
👤Rebelgecko🕑4y🔼0🗨️0
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p.s. I learnt not long ago that there's no such 'thing' as an antelope:
"The term antelope is used to refer to many species of even-toed ruminant that are indigenous to various regions in Africa and Eurasia. Antelope comprise a wastebasket taxon (miscellaneous group) within the family Bovidae, encompassing all Old World ruminants that are not bovines, caprines, deer, or giraffes."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antelope