You believe in cladistics or you don’t, cowards!
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grue@lemmy.world 20 hours agoOf course there’s such a thing as a fish! A fish is any swimming vertebrate (or its descendant), such as a tuna, or a duck, or a human.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 14 hours ago
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Being cold blooded and living “wholly in water” are also requirements.
grue@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Nah, phylogenetically speaking, all descendants of fish must also be fish, by definition. Therefore, “being cold blooded” cannot also be a criterion (not that it would work anyway since tuna are warm blooded, BTW, and nobody would argue tuna aren’t fish).
The “living wholly in water” criterion actually works, though: land-fish (e.g. humans) live inside a bag of water that we carry with us.