• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    That’s fair. Honestly, all of taxonomy is just lines we draw, and all of evolution is really a fuzzy gradient. We can’t even figure out where the line for ‘human’ begins, because that’s also a meaningless term, really.

    So the fact that we’re fish is as meaningful (or meaningless) as the fact that we’re human.

    (And thanks for the link! That’s a cool, uh, ‘fish’.)

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      19 hours ago

      Yeah, this is the distinction I’m trying to draw between “common” and “scientific” terminology. Scientific taxonomy is based on evolutionary history, rather than just superficial traits like “has gills, fins, and lives mostly in water.”