Classification of the Animals Based on Environment: A Proposal to Minimization of the Mistakes in the Theophrastus’ Classification
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The objective of this article was to analyze the classification of the Animals based on Environment. The main materials used were two books and an educative YouTube video about terrestrial and aerial and aquatic Animals. The methods used were bibliographical and documentary research; each method used was accompanied by profound personal reflections about Theophrastus’ classification. This article is important for Biology teachers who teach the classification of the Animals based on Environment, because presents a proposal of classification of the Animals that minimizes the mistakes that exist in the Theophrastus’ classification. Theophrastus was a philosopher of Ancient Greek who used the word Terrestrials to designate only those Animals that live in the Soil and move on the Soil, and who classified Animals according to the Environment in Aerial, Aquatic and Terrestrial Animals. In the Theophrastus’ classification, the Aerial Animals that normally live immersed in the atmospheric Air, for example Man and Monkey, are considered Terrestrial Animals. The main mistakes that exist in the Theophrastus’ classification are the consideration of various Aerial Animals as being Terrestrial and the lack of a proper name to designate the group of Animals that normally live immersed in the Soil. The Earth is not the Soil and the word Terrestrials is not appropriate to designate only those Animals that live in the Soil and move on the Soil because is applied to any Animal that exists in the Planet Earth, the appropriate word to designate only those Animals that live in the Soil is the word Solumials or Solumics because is formed by adding the English suffix ials or ics to the Latin root Solum which means Soil in English. To minimize the mistakes that exist in the Theophrastus’ classification is proposed the comprehension of that, the Terrestrial Animals are all the Animals that exist in the Planet Earth and the Animals are classified according to the Environment in Aerial and Aquatic and Solumial or Solumic Animals. The Environments of the Planet Earth in which the Animals can live are the Atmosphere formed by atmospheric Air, the Hydrosphere formed by Water and the Lithosphere composed by Soil. Based on Environment, the Aerial Animals are those that live immersed in the atmospheric Air, example Man; the Aquatic Animals are those that live immersed in the Water, example Fish; the Solumial or Solumic Animals are those that live immersed in the Soil, example Mole.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".