morphology-based phylogeny
morphology-based phylogeny
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One of our bioinformatics has a sign at his desk that says "taxonomy is a social construct".
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Conservatives hate this one trick!
(The trick: literally everything in all aspects of reality, from the larges to smallest scales to every branch of life and consciousness is a motherfucking SPECTRUM. No hard lines. Nothing is solid. Not even the matter you're standing or sitting on.)
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"Yah but nuance is so hard! It's so much easier to just hate everything I don't understand"
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“taxonomy is a social construct”
i mean for bacteria it actually is because bacteria can exchange genes across "species" so it's not really a species... at least not in the sense of eukaryotes (where species are defined such that different species cannot exchange genes with each other)
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A paper I quite enjoy is "Queer Theory for Lichens" which argued that queer theory is genuinely a useful framework for studying lichens; Lichens resist categorisation in a manner that feels like they're actively mocking our taxonomic efforts.
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I wonder how many people think that this;
is what a coconut actually looks like.
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Coconut as it looks on the palm tree
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That coconut is clearly not on a palm tree, mate. /s
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If that's not a coconut, what the fuck have I been eating?
Edit: Ok. The edit makes it make sense lol.
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Go get those weird looking white ones from an Asian grocery store, they look like styrofoam cylinders with carved pointed tops. Use a butcher's knife to chop the point off. (carefully, they are full of juice, you might be able to cut it just right so it leaves just enough meat over the water cavity.) Insert straw and long spoon to carve the natural jell-o out with. Thank me later.
Edit: this is also a great date-night activity.
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I got to travel Southeast Asia for a time, it's atrocious how much we're missing out on in the USA.
Even the really fresh coconuts here just don't compare to the ones you get fresh off a tree. It's unreal. Don't get me started on my Mango Rant.
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I lived in the US Virgin Islands as a kid. Our back yard had a seemingly endless supply of mangoes, bananas, avocado, lime, oranges (the real stuff, not the engineered shit we eat in the mainland), grapefruit, bread fruit, acerola, plantains, and pigeon peas. It wasn't even that big a yard. Shit just grows.
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Have you tried a papaya growing off the roadside?
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They exist in FL and I've climbed trees to get em. I like em when they're yellow. Delicious coconut water and basically a coconut "jelly" lining. I also lived in the Caribbean my early life (2-7) so had a lot down there too, plus fresh sugarcane, guava, mangoes, and a thing we called a plum but was a small tree fruit that I also loved yellow ripeness. After a quick Google evidently called a June Plum or a hog plum. Used to eat em straight from the tree.
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that looks underripe to me
(from researchgate), Maturity stages of coconut: a) young; b) early ripening; c) ripe-
From experience: all stages of a coconut are distinct, edible and used for different dishes, treats, condiments and ingredients. It's truly a wonderous plant and sad that most Americans are only familiar with the overripe, hard kind with hard flesh.
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Underripe is when it's nice and full of water. Best when thirsty. Dry and ripe, best when hungry.
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On related news, the salmon fish is not salmon color... And beef comes in larger packages on nature.
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the salmon fish is not salmon color...
Why, sure it is! 😬
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Maybe we just disagree on what color "salmon" is, but the meat is what I would call that color. They're like flamingos in that they take on pigment from their diet. For this reason, farmed salmon will not be "salmon" color unless their diet has been supplemented with the pigment.
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Coconuts are tropical! This is temperate zone!
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How is this the temperate zone?? You know how the internet works?
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BEHOLD! THE MAMMAL! IT GIVES MILK AND HAS HAIR!
(And has venomous claws, lays eggs, has electroreceptors, glows under UV, has 10 sex chromosomes, genetically it’s a mix of reptiles and mammals…)
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It's one of twoish (one species of platypus, three of echidnas) mammals on its order (the other order which has all the more normal mammals — placental mammals) it's so different to the other mammals that really all monotremes have in common with placentals is hair and milk
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Ok, but chickens produce milk too, just like coconuts:
\ wiki/Crop_milkAlso dis:
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Some spiders also produce milk.
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So they are coconuts.
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Hmm... I am a quack, therefore I duck?
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I'm a little sad that everyone's focused on the coconut and missing the reference to the naked man who lives in a barell trolling the father of western philosophy.
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Actually, it's about the teeth.
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Yes, wiki/Vagina_dentata.
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I think a rabbit would be more accurate. Seeing as how a chicken has a beak. Also something cloaca
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Horror time https://youtu.be/F2E3qA4Vx_A