Comment on Dolphins is whales.
lugal@lemmy.ml 2 months agoBecause that would make fish and vertebrates synonyms so why not drop the former altogether?
Comment on Dolphins is whales.
lugal@lemmy.ml 2 months agoBecause that would make fish and vertebrates synonyms so why not drop the former altogether?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Words can mean more than one thing thought, and depending on the context it can be useful to convey the fact that the vertebrates all evolved from fish-like ancestors, or that whales are more closely related to some fish than those fish are related to other fish.
lugal@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
And it’s totally valid to use it that way even though I wouldn’t. That’s the “You decide” part of my first comment