January 28, 2009
Animal Kingdom Gets a New Root.
I think it can be summarized like this:
metozoan $ sudo su
urmetozoan $ ./evolve -R -animalia
what, too geeky?
Ur-mother's so old, she's not even a placozoan.
If you, like me, were tripped up by one word in the second link, here you go.
Bauplan, bauplan, bauplan.
And I thought lawyers had terrible jargon...
Well, we're discussing benthic dwellers, right?
And isn't there a joke about lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
Bauplan isn't jargon, it's German. It's a reflection of the fact that many people doing evolution/ecology research were European.
Hell, in my training I learned to deal with bauplans, along with umwelt, Zeitgebers and Zugunruhe. If you knew the meaning of the terms, you'd know I was trained in ecology and evolutionary biology, with a solid emphasis on behavioral biology and more specifically circadian biology.
I think a word can be jargon AND German. In my case, Zitterbewegung.
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