atlinmerrick:elodieunderglass:livebloggingmydescentintomadness:i just feel like you guys should see
atlinmerrick:elodieunderglass:livebloggingmydescentintomadness:i just feel like you guys should see this thread about foxesFor some reason, when biologists want to describe “the assemblage of morphological features shared among many members of a phylum-level group” we say bauplan. Which is German for “body plan.” But even if you don’t speak German you say “bauplan” anyway. So this is a very hilarious Social Media Discourse from someone who has forgotten that the word “bauplan” is an instant giveaway that you are actually a biologist and that makes it fantastic it’s like when robots try to pretend that they’re human but better“what if a fox was made of spaghetti”Bauplan isn’t “body plan”, it’s building plan (more colloquially a blueprint) - bauern oops bauen is to build -- source link
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