Since I last checked, “slime mold” has gone from taxon to lifestyle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold I hope this results in greater acceptance of our
@Meaningness Good lord, modern phylogenetics at the kingdom level is a madhouse. Look at this! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisthokont …
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@St_Rev Yeah, wow, funny, I was just looking at that myself half an hour ago. Big changes over the past ten years, when I last looked.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev It’s like, what the fuck are all these things? -
@Meaningness Oh no you are NOT giving that speck of snot equal ontological status to all of Animalia buddy I did not HEAR that -
@St_Rev Yeah, especially not since they are all fish parasites. -
@Meaningness Apparently we're all just retroviruses playing dressup these days, though. -
@Meaningness As in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HERV#Human_endogenous_retroviruses … (humans 8%, some other mammals much higher). -
@St_Rev Oh, yeah, well, humans are mostly parasites, that’s not exactly news! -
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