Not only do we humans have a common ancestor with primates still living in trees, we have a common ancestor with the trees.

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• lurker2718@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As always, there is a relevant xkcd for this: https://xkcd.com/2608/

  Grandma says that because of differences in primate and feline lifespans, the cat is actually my 17,000,000th cousin 14,000,000 times removed.

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was going to say one of them should have been 50 times removed but Randall got me in the alt text:

    Grandma says that because of differences in primate and feline lifespans, the cat is actually my 17,000,000th cousin 14,000,000 times removed.

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Every gardening also

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wonder which of that ancestor’s descendants would be its favorite child.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t. I know.

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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have a deep connection to willows.

  40% pussy willow, 40% weeping willow, 20% banana.

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is actually true both humans and trees are eukaryotes…

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• myrmidex@lemmy.nogods.be ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Will future generations ever look at trees the way we look at primates today?

  I imagine that would spell trouble for our eating habits.

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  • fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’ll be fine. Sharks are older than trees so we can switch to them.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean, people already are…

    We don’t have a better definition for consciousness then “it’s what anesthesia stops” and we don’t have a better idea about what anesthesia does than “stops consciousness”. So it’s a chicken/egg thing.

    The thing is, anesthesia works on everything, humans, animals, plants, even single celled organisms.

    Literally everything is consciousness. Tomatoes even feel pain thru our most common definitions.

    So yeah, people that claim to be vegan because of animal suffering are still causing suffering and pain to life, then ending that life.

    You’d need to be some super specific type of vegan where you only eat fruits because those specifically evolved to be eaten in a symbiotic relationship with animals.

    But like, I’m pretty sure that would just give you organic diabetes or something.

    So everyone draws their personal line wherever, but none of us really have an “ethical diet”

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    • myrmidex@lemmy.nogods.be ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      TIL! Never heard that definition, thanks for that.

      As for your point, it’s one I like to make sometimes, even though I’m fully in favor of veganism. One just cannot avoid trampling ants when walking. It’s such a fine line, even a paradox that keeps sucking me in. None of the extremes would work: eat everything vs eat nothing. The line drawn by society will always seem arbitrary, no matter where it’s at.

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• selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m not sure most people really, really grasp this idea. We are all connected in this way. The tree of life.

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• spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And tardigrades, just to give you the warm fuzzies.

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