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minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 year agoStudied Ichthyology in the early 2000’s and will never forget how much of my A&P coursework was on birds. And how the lab TAs were not at all impressed when I just called them all air fish.
minus-squarelogicbomb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoThis reminds me of how Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there’s no such thing as a fish.
minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoThere’s also no such thing as a tree. Tree is a survival strategy, not a biological classification. P.S. If you haven’t listened to the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast by the QI elves, you’re missing out.
Studied Ichthyology in the early 2000’s and will never forget how much of my A&P coursework was on birds. And how the lab TAs were not at all impressed when I just called them all air fish.
This reminds me of how Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there’s no such thing as a fish.
There’s also no such thing as a tree. Tree is a survival strategy, not a biological classification.
P.S. If you haven’t listened to the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast by the QI elves, you’re missing out.