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Come@Me: If Birds are Dinosaurs I’m a Monkey’s Uncle

10,000 Birds

Humans have always classified organisms in a variety of ways, depending on need. In other words, you can’t say something like, “humans, gorillas, chimps, and bonobos are all in the same family and equally related to each other.” For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”.

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

10,000 Birds

Whales are cows. So, for example, humans are apes. In other words, the group of mammals that includes all the monkeys, which is rather large (and not accurately defined because I’ve not said what a “monkey” is … am I including lemurs?) The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. You should have said whales.

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