Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Mar 31 2022 10:12am)
Classifying things based on what they can mate with is something you do. Nature creates things that can mate with some other things and not mate with others. It's your decision to put those things into boxes and label them based on what they can mate with.
This is like, philosophy 101 level material. Not something you should be so emotionally opposed to accepting.
the issue you're having is continuing to think that im opposed to this sidebar, rather than simply realizing its a sidebar that's not relevant to the science we're speaking of.
next if i ask you which human behaviors are driven by chemical biology and which are driven by social construction you'll tell me that humans decided what a fight was and created the word gossip.
Quote (Skinned @ Mar 31 2022 10:18am)
Foucault has a lot to say about taxonomy in The Order of Things. It is a way of categorization based in similitude. Taxonomy used to be based in differences prior to this scientific paradigm.
A phylum didn't exist before some dudes made it up and decided on a collective definition for it.
Just a thought in taxonomy.
evolutionary taxonomy can still be tracked via DNA study tho. the fact that we thought Pandas were bears for a while doesnt change my point. nature does through evolution create categories, the fact we identify and name them doesnt change that.