Post #1400789
2026-04-12 09:36 UTC
If you don’t know the difference between turtle and tortoise then you are a monkey
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@qualia@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 10:03
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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@Lumidaub@feddit.org 2026-04-12 12:23
I’m perfectly fine with that in my native language.
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@renzev@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 14:07
No I'm a primate it's totally different