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“Almost all” means that if you pull six-legged animals names outnof a hat you’re nearly guaranteed to find an insect. Doesn’t mean you can’t pull the non-insect first try, and doesn’t mean that centaurs must be insects.

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DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This bias is to biology only found in our experience. What if theres an alien physiology that ruins this argument.

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- captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  No alien species counts as an animal taxinomically. A similar extraterrestrial ecosystem would likely result in reclassifications to add planet of greatest ancestral origin. Life seeders would make taxonomy even harder.
  
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- _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I’d argue centaur world is its own tree of life until proof exists that earth life and centaur world life had a common ancestor.
  
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- Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  sigh Okay scientist, you can look at my dragon dick
  
  … For science
  
  “Wait, what’s the mould for?”
  
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- Soup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Exactly.
  
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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They’d still be an arthropod even if they weren’t a species of insect. So I guess the question is whether all six-legged arthropods have ovipositors. Sounds likely.

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