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Fuck paraphyletic groups (i.imgur.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And I’m a fish. But that’s not very helpful.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Rimmer was right!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No such things as trees either...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is the one that breaks my brain

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Believing people who say that sort of thing about the meaning of perfectly cromulent words like "fish", "bird", and "berry" is like going to the butcher shop to learn about horsemanship.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Nuts!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Some dinosaurs were fish. Therefore you're a dinosaur.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Technically? All dinosaurs are fish. You are a fish. But you are not a dinosaur.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, neither option is helpful.

I'm going with "dinosaurs are dinosaurs!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Now that's just silly.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

my dinosaur has feathers, does that help?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Awww! That's a cute fish you got there!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

So sigma.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Behold! A man!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait, but didn't a lot of them it turns out actually have feathers? Like regardless of taxonomy, with regards to phenotype, I thought we were able to inductively reason they had feathers ( possibly more like like down feathers ) and were even most closely related to birds.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Yes, we have proof for quite a number and can conclude that there were even more, nobody really knows how many. Some go so far to speculate that all did.

I think the meme is that the guy on the right sees it with phylogenetic lense and would also include birds into the reptilian group. I'm more fan of saying there are no reptiles at all but both views are equally valid