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By the way, 'lower animals' isn't the preferred nomenclature in biology anymore. They have had a comparable amount of evolutionary time to specialize in their o
by ftxbro 4y ago
By the way, 'lower animals' isn't the preferred nomenclature in biology anymore. They have had a comparable amount of evolutionary time to specialize in their own things (maybe even effectively more if they have larger populations or smaller generation times), and they are more refined at some stuff while humans are more refined at other stuff (like advanced sweat pores and big brain).
Humans: lose our ancestral abilities of limb regeneration
Also humans: call our distant cousins who didn't lose those abilities as 'lower'
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- GordonS 4y agoOut of curiosity, what is the preferred nomenclature nowadays?
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- rintakumpu 4y agoIf you want to differentiate between mammals and other vertebrates you could simply say "other vertebrates".
- Karawebnetwork 4y agoNon-mammalian vertebrates also
- emaginniss 4y agoFollicly challenged species or Animals of Scales (AoS)
- tedunangst 4y agoRegenerative limb enjoyers.
- bloppe 4y agoHigher
- egberts1 4y agoFormer limb-regenerator.
- bheadmaster 4y agoNow we're language-revising biology to make sure animals aren't being disrespected? Wew.
- foxyv 4y agoIf you ever take courses for a degree in a science like biology, chemistry, or physics, you will often run into stuff like this. We are insanely pedantic about precise terminology because we have to be. If you don't speak carefully you can say something entirely different from what you mean. To a lay-person it seems like we are just being know-it-all jerks. But it's actually really important to use proper terminology when communicating science information. Scientists spend a lot of their time just learning proper terminology and how to communicate properly. Stuff like the difference between precision and accuracy, centrifugal and centripetal forces, etc... A good example of this is, that niacin used to be called nicotinic acid. As a result, many people tried to supplement niacin by smoking nicotine. When we communicate scientific concepts to lay-persons we have to be EXTRA careful. We had to language revise and rename the vitamin as niacin to prevent misunderstanding.
- bheadmaster 4y ago> When we communicate scientific concepts to lay-persons we have to be EXTRA careful. We had to language revise and rename the vitamin as niacin to prevent misunderstanding. If you're cultivating a herd of uneducated emotion-driven stressed-out people by destroying education, getting everyone hooked on addictive social media and killing the economy every couple years, then yeah, you got to be careful. Better put that "do not eat" sticker on a box of moth balls. But I think we'd be better off teaching people how to think properly, than trying to dumb down everything to a level of a toddler.
- foxyv 4y agoYou can't be an expert on everything. Everyone is a lay-person in something. I used to scoff at warning labels myself until I realized that some people grow up without the benefit of parents or education. Those things that we think are obvious are, very often, not. We learned them from someone who cared about us.