3 Types of Violations

[Rich1]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

What a weird classification system.

Melvil Dewey and Carl Linnaeus would not be pleased.

Nice references. There can't be 5 people on this site that know off the top of their head who these two guys are. You were either a librarian or a biologist in a past life.

[FlasherZ]

Originally Posted by Rich1

Nice references. There can't be 5 people on this site that know off the top of their head who these two guys are. You were either a librarian or a biologist in a past life.

There are probably more than 5, I'd hope - they taught us this in grade school... if not, I'm in rare company then.

[Rich1]

Originally Posted by FlasherZ

There are probably more than 5, I'd hope - they taught us this in grade school... if not, I'm in rare company then.

Dewey - Yes, we all used the library at some point.

Linnaeus - Lesser known evolutionist whose theories were largely disproven by Darwin so why would this even come up in elementary school.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Rich1

Linnaeus ... why would this even come up in elementary school.

Can't remember for me as a student, but as a teacher, I taught binomial nomenclature in seventh grade life science.

Students came into my lesson believing that "scientific" names were stupid, and that "common" names were good enough.

Students left my lesson believing the opposite.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Students came into my lesson believing that "scientific" names were stupid, and that "common" names were good enough. Students left my lesson believing the opposite.

One of my best lessons.

There are over one-hundred "common" names for one bird, the northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) including yellowhammer, pigeon woodpecker, and golden winged woodpecker.

The cougar (Puma concolor), a single animal, has many "common" names, including puma, mountain lion, catamount, and panther.

And true "panthers" can be leopards (Panthera pardus) or jaguars (Panthera onca).

Cougars are not true "panthers"

Lions (Panthera leo) and tigers (Panthera tigris) are also true "panthers".

And the Florida panther isn't a real "panther", it's a cougar (Puma concolor).

Confused? That's the point.

Stick to the Latin scientific names and you won't be.

Catfish, crayfish, silverfish, jellyfish, starfish.

Only one is a fish (and it isn't a member of the cat (Felidae) family).

One doesn't even live in the water.

[FlasherZ]

Originally Posted by Rich1

Linnaeus - Lesser known evolutionist whose theories were largely disproven by Darwin so why would this even come up in elementary school.

*shrug* binomial nomenclature was part of our science curriculum in junior high...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by FlasherZ

...binomial nomenclature was part of our science curriculum in junior high ...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by FlasherZ

... binomial nomenclature was part of our science curriculum in junior high ...

Did you learn this: King Phillip Came Over From Germany Saturday?

[Rich1]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Did you learn this: King Phillip Came Over From Germany Saturday?

You left off DOMAIN - it is now above Kingdom in the classification. It includes the Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya (plants & animals). I guess now we should change it to Did King Phillip Came Over From Germany Saturday?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Rich1

There can't be 5 people on this site that know off the top of their head who these two guys are.

Originally Posted by FlasherZ

There are probably more than 5 ... they taught us this in grade schoo l...

Most people couldn't care a Rattus norvegicus's ass who Carl Linnaeus was.

Wasn't Dewey one of the triplet nephews of Donald Duck?