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> the mammalian talent for live birth Monotremes are egg-laying mammals so the author is identifying with placental and/or marsupial mammals, and not mammals a
by dalke 11y ago
> the mammalian talent for live birth
Monotremes are egg-laying mammals so the author is identifying with placental and/or marsupial mammals, and not mammals as a whole.
("Technically correct - the best kind of correct.")
- Mz 11y agoSome snakes give birth instead of laying eggs.
- dalke 11y agoOther criteria exclude those snakes. The author said: > But there is a danger in pushing the borders of affiliation so far out that they no longer have any resonance. Placing an emphasis on our mammalian identity is a reasonable compromise between a restrictive anthropocentrism and a vapid all-inclusiveness. > Mammalian awareness embraces our affinity with our hairy and milky fellow mammals, Snakes neither have hair nor provide milk to their young.
- Mz 11y agoUh, yeah, I realize that. I guess maybe I should have said something like "Nifty off topic observation/ did you know?" kind of thing. (Or, you know, kept my mouth shut.)
- pervycreeper 11y ago#StopPlatypusErasure2015