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SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months agoSource?
Because all the sources I’ve come across say that “fish” is not a monophylatic classification and is essentially arbitrary.
Comment on On trees...
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months agoSource?
Because all the sources I’ve come across say that “fish” is not a monophylatic classification and is essentially arbitrary.
DancingBear@midwest.social 10 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
… and Wikipedia states that the category of “fish” is paraphylatic, meaning that it is defined by convention rather than ‘fact’ and its boundaries can be argued, since it excludes some of the descendants of fish.
also, as pointed out, we use the word fish to describe lots of things that are not included in this definition, like starfish and crayfish.