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cluckindanyesterday at 10:44 AM2 repliesview on HN

Related: There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-th...


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orthoxeroxyesterday at 1:27 PM

There's no such thing as a fish either. Unless you count whales, parrots and Kanye West as fish.

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tomaskafkayesterday at 11:14 AM

Thank you! Isn’t it amazing how a rigid hierarchical categorization system fails everywhere you actually look into details? See also category theory vs prototype theory.

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