All nucleic acid sequences are related eventually. HIV is highly polyphyletic, with each group more related to corresponding SIV than HIVs
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
So HIV is a human-centric category, and "types" of virus are particularly confusing to our already nebulous species categories?
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Replying to @robamacl @Meaningness
I always thought of phylogenetics as an excellent alternative to qabala in exhausting the initiate's capacity for classification.
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Once you correctly and completely grasp the emptiness of 'species', you will have achieved enlightenment, or at least a powerful headache.
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Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness
Yeah, but it's not empty, it's a great example of nebulous. Any idiot can see there are types of plant and animal.
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One way to understand the apparent discreteness of species is that history keeps us from seeing test cases side by side. Usually extinct.
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Replying to @robamacl @Meaningness
'Empty' as I'm using it means 'there's nothing of independent substance to the concept beyond this or that actually existing population'.
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Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness
Yes, but evolution is all in the context of historical accident. And sparse pop structure happens again and again. The origin of species...
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Replying to @robamacl @Meaningness
yes yes I'm aware. I study phylogenetics trees for fun. I'm saying there is no Platonic Form of Gorilla, just genotypes rolling downhill
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Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness
My pet peeve is "invasive species". We are all invasive species, humans especially.
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Not sure what we're arguing about now.
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