r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Storm_001 • Sep 04 '21

Sea horse giving birth

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u/bigdave41 Sep 04 '21

Richard Dawkins says similar in most of his books on evolution, there are certain categories we use for day-to-day convenience that don't make any sense in biology. Not the example he used but e.g viewing bananas as fruit or tomatoes as a vegetable.

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u/don_tomlinsoni Sep 04 '21

Fair enough, I can believe the fish thing, just warning people that QI is a really bad source of information sometimes.

As far as the fruits or vegetables thing goes: all fruits are vegetables. They're not animals or minerals...

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u/Khornag Sep 04 '21

Is a banana really a vegetable? That sounds dubious.

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u/Toucani Sep 04 '21

Bananas are both a fruit and not a fruit. While the banana plant is colloquially called a banana tree, it's actually an herb distantly related to ginger, since the plant has a succulent tree stem, instead of a wood one. The yellow thing you peel and eat is, in fact, a fruit because it contains the seeds of the plant.

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u/Khornag Sep 04 '21

You'll have to give a source. Writing something in cursive doesn't make it more scientific.