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minus-squareGamingChairModel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·2 months agoMonkeys are a social construct. Like trees.
minus-squarelemonmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoIf trees aren’t real, how can our birds be real? …I am so sorry
minus-squareEnkrod@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoSimiiformes is a clear and distinct clade. There is no such thing for trees, because “tree” is a botanical classification, not a cladistical one.
minus-squareGamingChairModel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months ago Simiiformes is a clear and distinct clade. Yes but who says that specific clade maps to the colloquial taxonomic word “monkey”?
Monkeys are a social construct. Like trees.
If trees aren’t real, how can our birds be real?
…I am so sorry
Simiiformes is a clear and distinct clade.
There is no such thing for trees, because “tree” is a botanical classification, not a cladistical one.
Yes but who says that specific clade maps to the colloquial taxonomic word “monkey”?