Comment on English has too many words for animals

regdog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• qualia@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Apes evolved from dry-nosed monkeys, so despite the popular wisdom, according to monophyly we are monkeys. Similarly humans are fish. The confusion arises because most people still group species by common characteristics (a grade) rather than common descent (a clade). Also known as Linnean vs phylogenetics.

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  • regdog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was just trying to set up a monkey/ape joke

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• renzev@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No I’m a primate it’s totally different

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m perfectly fine with that in my native language.

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