iilwl

@iilwl@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution Factsberg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m honestly surprised this isn’t better understood in this community, at least as an approach to the tree of life system of classification, with or without its merits. I didn’t go to college and went to public school that suppressed science education, but this was how I came to understand evolution and that all types of life had a universal common ancestor.

  I’m not speaking to the accuracy of the meme, and the science community at large has its criticisms of cladistics, but I’m not sure I would classify this as a problem of biology or language, or a problem at all. It is the most common method of evolutionary classification at this time.

  Keep in mind I’m a blue collar worker on my lunch break and not a scientist nor college educated. I just like to learn in my free time about a bunch of stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution Factsberg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cladistics.

  “Theoretically, a last common ancestor and all its descendants constitute a (minimal) clade. Importantly, all descendants stay in their overarching ancestral clade. For example, if the terms worms or fishes were used within a strict cladistic framework, these terms would include humans.”