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• abir_v@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Birds are reptiles. Commonly, we wouldn’t say so, but they’re in the same clade. The avians are closer related to the crocadilians than the crocs are to other reptiles like the squamates - lizards and snakes.

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also people are fish. You can’t evolve out of your clade.

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    • abir_v@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hank Green went off about this recently. “Fish” just has no scientific meaning, and there are fish tetrapods.

      I don’t necessarily disagree, but ultimately there is a problem in classifying “fish” in the modern scientific taxonomy system - it has no good phylum to fit in as its a term that’s a bit more broad than that, but not broad enough to make for a kingdom.

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      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure, but isn’t the point that what we’d call ‘fish’ back when everything lived in the oceans, like pre-Devonian, the ancestors of all modern life?

        We can’t out-evolve our clade, so all land animals are fish? And also we’re all amphibians, and everything directly leading to us? Insects, plants, and fungi are separate, but we’re technically fish?

        Or am i misunderstanding that?

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