Comment on boogs
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 week ago“Bugs” (obviously not specifically Hemiptera) includes a Lot more than just insects. If you go back to the most recent common ancestor of everything commonly called a bug, I’m sure it’s Way back there and its descendents would include not only ocean arthropods but I’d guess probably most things with shells.
And yes, we are that closely related to fish
protist@mander.xyz 1 week ago
My point is that crabs and grasshoppers are separated by 400 million years of evolution, and are extremely different from one another, just like fish and people are extremely different from one another. I’m trying andfailing to understand your point
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The original post used the word bugs, not insects. (Although the pic does seem to show only insects, I’d interpret that as a stock image fail)
Bugs are such a wide group already that to me it seems reasonable to include branches separated by 400 million years of evolution, much the way ‘fish’ is such a wide group that by a scientifically reasonable definition it can include all vertebrates as a subgrouping.
protist@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Sure, people are fish and insects are crstaceans, but that has nothing to do with edibility.
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Indeed.