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Pharyngula 2025-03-17

Summary:

You know, categories are arbitrary, subjective, and human constructed, right? This is an excellent illustration of the idea. I appreciate that each example includes a tidy, neat rationalization, so we can see that the rationalizations are arbitrary, too. I just wish he’d do the same thing for categories of DNA sequences so I’d have an […]

Link:

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/17/categories/

From feeds:

Gudgeon and gist » Pharyngula

Tags:

science

Authors:

PZ Myers

Date tagged:

03/17/2025, 08:30

Date published:

03/17/2025, 08:15