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Fuck paraphyletic groups (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Klear@lemmy.world to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Rimmer was right!

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

No such things as trees either...

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

This is the one that breaks my brain

[-] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Nuts!

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Well, neither option is helpful.

I'm going with "dinosaurs are dinosaurs!"

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Now that's just silly.

[-] UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years ago

my dinosaur has feathers, does that help?

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

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

[-] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

So sigma.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Behold! A man!

[-] BellaDonna@mujico.org 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 years 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