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hedgie:
At least the tomato thing helps with explaining D&D stats.
Tova:
Along that theme:
A chimpanzee isn't a monkey
--- Quote ---David: Even though a chimp is totally in every meaningful way, obviously it's a monkey, it's not a monkey. You know, it's a special place that's been made by biologists for pedants to reside so that any time someone refers to a chimpanzee as a monkey, like you did then, a pedant like me says, "Oh no, a chimpanzee isn't a monkey"; and I've started to hate myself for that.
Lee: Nice of you to join the rest of us.
--- End quote ---
Also in that category, while I'm on the topic, "blank isn't a colour."
Morituri:
The common ancestor of the Coelecanth and cats diverged from "fish" more recently than the common ancestor of Coelecanth and other fish.
This fascinates me because humans' most recent common ancestor with cats, and in fact, the earliest common ancestor of all mammals, and before that the earliest common ancestor of all reptiles, all came after that. I don't know why they picked "cats" to communicate this story, but it can't be true without including all mammals, and that can't be true without including all the reptiles, and that can't be true without including all the dinosaurs including birds.
Meaning that the Coelecanth is an offshoot of the lineage that gave rise to all land animals, and that lineage has given rise to no other surviving species of fish. And that seems unique enough to be worth studying and trying to understand. What was so special about it? What cocktail of evolutionary pressures caused the following sequence of events?
Likewise with sea squirts. It's the closest relative to a vertebrate that isn't actually a vertebrate. So "useless but true" for most of us, but if you happen to have an interest in how vertebrates came about, then understanding the sea squirt is likely to be important.
Runkel:
--- Quote from: Tova on 19 Dec 2021, 15:35 ---Also in that category, while I'm on the topic, "blank isn't a colour."
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Yet Zero is a number. Isn't it?
Tova:
While it is true that "blank" is not a colour, I had intended to say "black," of course. :roll:
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