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Of course, things are also more complicated than even this. Cladistics, Dendrograms, Phylogenetics... We'll just leave it at this lest [[Your Head Asplode]] .
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== General ==
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* The female scientist near the beginning of the series ''[[Surface]]'' described the creature she'd seen as "An entirely new phylum of mammal!" This is especially mind-boggling when we later learn that the creatures are created from the DNA of liopleurodons(a prehistoric sea reptile)... which she describes as "A type of prehistoric eel"... You know, just stop trying.
* Anyone else want to punch the screen when [[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]] gave the (reptilian) Silurians the name "''Homo reptilia''"?
* Occasionally a host of a [[Food Network]] show will try to emulate Alton Brown's use of scientific terminology, and wind up sounding like a [[Know
* The main character in ''[[Prey]]'' claims in the pilot to have discovered a new species after analyzing a DNA sample with a 1.2% difference from a regular human. They later proceed to name the new "species" ''Homo dominants'', apparently unaware that you're supposed to use Latin for this.
** Actually, a 1.2% difference might actually enough difference to classify as a new species- ''if'' that group consisted of a reproductively isolated population. The "new species" from Prey, of course, freely intermingled with the rest of humanity.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Subverted in [[Mass Effect]], in which the names of the various alien species are very carefully non-capitalised, thus avoiding the common assumption that an alien planet is [[Planetville|just another country but a bit further away]].
* Also recently [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] in ''[[Starcraft|Star Craft 2]]''. Whereas the previous game (and early [[Expanded Universe]] materials) capitalized species name as is often done in science fiction ([[Planetville|erroneously]]), ''[[Star Craft 2]]'' promotional materials and the new books ''all'' spell "protoss" and "zerg" with non-capitals. [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|The fandom hasn't quite caught on yet]].
* Hidden object casual games regularly invoke this trope, as when clicking on a "seahorse" isn't registered as finding a "fish".
* Averted in the [[War Craft]] franchise, where across all media species names are almost always left uncapitalized. However, many, many fans do so anyway.
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