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[–] lauha@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

I agree. With same logic:

  • Water is not mercury
  • Water is liquid
  • Liquid is mercury
  • Water is mercury
[–] L1to@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not all liquids are, or come from mercury, while all tretapods come from fishes. So that logic doesn't work.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Yes but "mammals are tetrapods" is the incorrect one

[–] lauha@lemmy.one -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree. All animals and plants are single celled.

[–] wanderer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'Single celled' is a characteristic, not a lineage. Organisms don't necessarily have the same characteristics as their ancestors.

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're seriously splitting hairs about lineage when you know humans are obviously not fish.

[–] wanderer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A species can not evolve out of a clade. I am not splitting hairs, I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid.

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid.

Obviously you are not, since fish are not considered a monophyletic group.

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