A new study reveals it would take far longer than the lifespan of our universe for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare. So, while the Infinite Monkey Theorem is true, it is also somewhat misleading.

The question that everyone has been dying to know has been answered. Finally! What will scientists study next?

  • Klear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    Humans are apes, apes are monkeys, paraphyletic groups are bullshit.

    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      To be entirely fair, apes aren’t monkeys. I don’t think that particular distinction is really all that relevant to the discussion, but technically…

      • Klear@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        From wikipedia:

        Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes. Thus monkeys, in that sense, constitute an incomplete paraphyletic grouping; however, in the broader sense based on cladistics, apes (Hominoidea) are also included, making the terms monkeys and simians synonyms in regard to their scope.

        • Ookami38@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Oh neat. This is all taxonomy that is well beyond me. My defense of calling humans monkeys is that everyone does it, and that’s how language works. Glad to know I’m correct too, technically lol