he used his vape and cussed at the other drivers in colorful language, telling us that this language was mild compared to what he would use if we weren’t there. He even got into a fight with another driver. They put down their windows at a stop light and yelled names at each other...
I have no problem with the use of paraphyletic names in speech – cladistics is not everything, and there are perfectly valid reasons why we might like to refer to apes, or monkeys, or animals, as groups distinct from humans. But wearedescended from them. And the two-part formulation that...