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• gnufuu@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you calling Dawkins a gardener and 4chan scientists?

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    • syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Precisely. :)

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• fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  oops all Brassica

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If he used other opinions I’d be inclined to agree. Taxonomy is an attempt to divide and categorize so something that can not be so cleanly divided.

      The example of Neanderthals is a good one. Neanderthals and modern humans both split from homo erectus. However they were able to interbreed and they did. Frankly fully separating Neanderthals made no sense. They and homo sapiens should be considered subspecies of one another.

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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Onions are onions! Science-schmayence! Pfft…

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• RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t remember the fancy words for my plants, I just plant them in the ground and hope for the best.

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• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This, right here, is why I hated botany.

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• jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But then all scientists would be called Homo sapiens

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• kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve noticed a fair amount of spider enthusiasts get worked up about this, too.

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