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A friend of mine had an interesting conversation with her father. It started with he telling her that the family was looking for a suitable partner for her elder brother, and a little while later, it got to a point where he said, "Yes, nothing wrong with working women, but what is the need after all? Your brother is competent enough to provide for both of them." If you're a feminist, your first reaction might be one of disgust or fury. But if you are a rational thinker, you would admit that there is nothing factually incorrect about the statement (I presume we can take the dad's word for the potential bridegroom's competence). If one partner can provide for the family, both do not need to work. [The keyword is "need".] I seek to be both, a feminist and a rational thinker. Indeed, the two go very comfortably together. Feminism does not have to be a struggle  or a fight  with one's own self. It's usually a struggle only with othe...

In case you want to go back to Part 1 or Part 2 . (But you don't need to!) No, you absolutely don't need to revise or remember anything from the previous 2 posts. Here's where we left off: And all you really need to remember is the key words at the bottom of the image. We're all eukaryotes => have an advanced cell structure We're all animals => have the ability to "move it!" We're all chordates => we have a convenient nervous system We're all mammals => we have mammary glands and hair We're all primates => we have complex brains and grasping hands MOVING ON So, with the advantages of several ancestors, we made it to the group of advanced primates which are divided into the tarsiers, the new world monkeys, the old world monkeys and the apes. The last 3 (Happlorhines minus the Tarsiers) are also collectively called the simians or anthropoids. Humans fall under the Superfamily Hominoidea , and hence are a...

Go back to Part 1 . Or continue anyway, I'll give you a quick recap. *Free* If you have stayed with me through Part 1, I assure you, things are going to get easier now. One big reason is, we're now zooming in closer from all life to our particular species and it will be a lot easier to relate to whatever the classification system describes to us. Colored words in each list show where we fall. The bottom bar reminds you of the important stuff, so you don't need to memorize anything. It also acts as sort of a progress bar which shows how deep we have reached in the classification system so far in the post. This is where we left the last post at, and for a quick recap let's remind ourselves that thank god, we belong to the: Domain Eukaryota : I can't be too sure, but I'd miss my nucleus, mitochondria and a bunch of other stuff that doesn't exist in prokaryotes Kingdom Animalia : the other options were to be a plant, a fungus, a protist, or a m...