just-shower-thoughts

Mammals both produce milk and have hair. Ergo, a coconut is a mammal.

maliwanhellfires

I know you’re being facetious, but this is an actual issue with morphology-based phylogeny.

castiel-for-king

*leans over and whispers to person beside me* what are they talking about

sonneillonv

*leans over and whispers back*  Human ability to quantify and categorize natural phenomena is sketchy at best and wildly misleading at worst

nonlinear-nonsubjective

consider the coconut

bemusedlybespectacled

this reminds me of that time Plato defined humans as “featherless bipeds” and Diogenes ran in with a plucked chicken screaming “BEHOLD A MAN!”