Taxonomy

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• fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  oops all Brassica

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• gnufuu@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sometimes a gardener invents a word and scientists make it useful by redefining it. See “meme”.

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  • Klear@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are you calling Dawkins a gardener and 4chan scientists?

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    • syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨50⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Isn’t rather “meme” the refinement from “gene” (seeing as it was chosen to rhyme with gene)

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Precisely. :)

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• jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  But then all scientists would be called Homo sapiens

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think taxonomy is pseudoscience. Chickens are dinosaurs, humans are fish, there’s no such thing as trees, oranges are a hybrid, mules aren’t a species, and neanderthals are a species. It’s bunk.

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  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re taking tongue-in-cheek pop culture factoids and your personal differences of opinion and using them to judge a field of science as fake.

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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Y’all, we found The Great Splitter, the one rumored to exist, whispered in phylogeny hallways to end classification forever.

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Classification doesn’t actually increase your understanding. It just feels like understanding to white cultural values. Learn a serious field of biology like biochem, neuroscience, endocrinology, paleontology… taxonomy doesn’t create knowledge, it only creates categories.

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• username_1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Onions are onions! Science-schmayence! Pfft…

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