• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I meant, can’t we just be more specific rather than use paraphyletic grouping?

    “What’s for dinner?”

    “Fish”

    “That could mean anything!”

    “You know I meant Actinopterygii.”

    “Still pretty broad.”

    “Oncorhynchus.”

    “You know how I feel about trout.”

    “Ugh. tshawytscha.”

    “Well, why didn’t you just say so in the first place?”