| Nice try, cladistician! |
A propos an old creationist tune and the utterly infuriating character of cladistic terminology.
So humans are apes...or are we australopithecines? Apes are monkeys, butterflies are moths, and soon all insects will be crustaceans. And yes, all land-lubbing vertebrates are really lobe-finned fish. Not sure why rabbits aren´t treeshrews, but I´m sure research is ongoing.
At least in Swedish, the apes (as in chimps, rillas, orangs, gutsick gibbons and the siamang) can bask in human glory, and I really do mean Homo (pardon my Latin). Per Wikipedia, Hominidae is called "människoapor" (human-apes or man-apes) while Hominoidea is called "människoartade apor" (human-like apes). Note that both categories also include Homo itself.
I´m sure Jacko down at the zoo loves to be called human-like (sounds almost teleological), but alas, if Anatomically Modern Män is amused, could be another thing entirely. After all, humans aren´t just *like* humans, they in fact *are* shmucking humans.
Time to put an end to the reign of autistic nerds in science, or what?
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