The Taxonomic Rabbit Hole

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The Taxonomic Rabbit Hole

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Biology students everywhere just felt this in their souls! 😂 What starts as memorizing the basic Linnaean taxonomy (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species) quickly spirals into a nightmare of subphyla, infraclasses, superorders, and about 50 other classifications that make you question your life choices. Modern taxonomy is like that friend who keeps adding "just one more stop" to your road trip until suddenly you're driving across three states. The further you go in biology, the more you realize taxonomists are just making stuff up as they go along. "Is it a clade? A tribe? A superfamily? Who knows! Let's invent another category!"

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