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Alolan forms probably explain why type resistances don't always work in the Anime

Posted August 11th, 2016 at 11:53 AM by Shamol (Possible world musings)
Updated August 11th, 2016 at 11:26 PM by Shamol

When I first found out Alolan Vulpix is going to be an ice-type, I really didn't know how to process this. To my mind, the type(s) of pokemon is so essential to its identity that I couldn't imagine a pokemon assuming a completely new type and still remaining the same species.

After that initial shock subsided though, I began to think- maybe that's how types are meant to be thought of. They [I]aren't[/I] essential to a pokemon's identity. They're mutable. Just like in the real world,...
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Biology in the grand scheme of science

Posted July 30th, 2016 at 7:11 AM by Shamol (Possible world musings)
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I was reading Ayala [I]et al[/I]'s [I]Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology[/I] a while back, and came across the attached graphic.

I'm a connoisseur of holistic systematizations, and the simplicity of it really cheered me up.
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