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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat do we call the science of classifying living things
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What do we call the science of classifying living things (Original Post)
dipsydoodle
Oct 2012
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. Was Adam the first scientist??
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)2. Actually it is called
Taxonomy
Using taxonomy we would classify racists as hatefullus idioromneys.
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)3. I prefer ...
Ignoramus Maximus
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)4. That's just idiotic. Not clever, not meaningful in the least.
The word is "taxonomy". Science does not recognize "races", that's strictly a social construct. Science classsifies human beings as "homo sapiens", period.
littlemissmartypants
(22,805 posts)5. "idioromneys"
also makes a great descriptive term... it sounds very much like a genetically predisposed condition of known etiology, no known cure, degenerative neurological disorder... autosomal dominant inheritance pattern.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)6. Foraging
This living thing is edible, that one is not.