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How many species are basically the same if you completely ignore differences in size, texture, color, and behavior? If you squint right, we're just apes in suit
by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
How many species are basically the same if you completely ignore differences in size, texture, color, and behavior? If you squint right, we're just apes in suits. It's almost like all those small differences add up to an outsize impact.
- dmix 4y agoCats also look very weird if you drench them in water. Much more rat-like. Same with owls, bears, etc.
- kazinator 4y agoAny two entities are the same, if you define equivalence in such a way that it ignores all their differences. "ABC" and "Abc" are the same, if we ignore case, and so it goes. You can't fix it with absolute equivalence, because absolute equivalence requires that some entity A is only equal to that same entity A, and no other entity; that is then inapplicable if we want to use equivalences for division into classes that have more than one member.
- cbozeman 4y agoIt's a little disconcerting just how chimpanzee-like some human beings look. I often wonder how anyone could dispute out origin when you look at a chimpanzee then look at a human. The similarities are incredibly striking.
- jjtheblunt 4y agowe are apes in clothes, no need to squint!
- sdiupIGPWEfh 4y agoGranted, I suppose "orangutans in suits" would have made for a more accurately-inaccurate analogy. Though perhaps to drive it home further, if you squint, orangutans are just fuzzier people who don't reproduce uncontrollably and spread environmental disasters so much.
- root_axis 4y agoHow many species are the same if you just ignore the qualities that distinguish them?