Ever the teacher, Emer reveled in the Latinate poetry of the taxonomical classifications—kingdom/Animalia, subkingdom/Bilateria, infrakingdom/Deuterostomia. What the hell was an infrakingdom? Phylum/Chordata, subphylum/Vertebrata, infraphylum/Gnathostomata, class/Aves, order/Passeriformes, family/Corvidae, genus/Corvus. There. Well, at least we know what we are. She spoke to the bird, “Hello, Corvus brachyrhynchos, I am Homo sapiens, we share kingdoms—Animalia and the Bilateria superphylum as well as the Vertebrata subphylum, obviously, and interestingly the infraphylum Gnathostomata—and I
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