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well thast one way
so because they've descended from dinosaurs, they should be classified as reptiles?
gliding from trees or just rnning on land
@dumblebore 🌈 yes, but mammals are also descended from reptiles
because they evolved from reptiles they are by deffinition reptiles in phylogenic clasification
So you need to make a distinction and not use only one classification
what we call the first reptile is kinda arbitrary tho
This says it better than I could
but then didn't life begin from the sea?
Yeah it did
so then aren't we all descended from pisces or aquatic animals then?
tyhere where reptilian animals arround way before the reptile group first apeared
yes
It's almost as if species are completely arbitrary
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the only solution is to either clasify mamals and reptiles as fish
or that fish has no meaning
in phylogenic clasification
if fish has a meaning then its basicly synnonymous with chordata
What are you on about
he said "so then aren't we all descended from pisces or aquatic animals then?"
i responded with a guess with where he was going
You should look up competing species concepts
You'd like that kind of stuff
so like symbiotic relationshit but competitionwize
fish is a _part_ of chordata though, isn't it
idk
More like "what makes a species a species"
like pisces is the subphylum of the phylum chordata
well in wikipedia its a subgroup of chordata
Chordata is everything with a backbone
vertebrates are everything with a backbone
and if you actually go up the grouping mamals on wikipedia
we are clasified as lobed fin fishes
tf?
well im not quoting Wikipedia here, im quoting my 9th grade shitty textbook lol
Wow it's almost as if you can't get proper species ideas from randomly clicking Wikipedia links
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your text book probably used taxonomic/lineaen clasification