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Where the category "fish" isn't a clade - it's possible to evolve to no longer be a fish - it's more comparable to a specific generation of ARM chips, like perh
by mumblemumble 5y ago
Where the category "fish" isn't a clade - it's possible to evolve to no longer be a fish - it's more comparable to a specific generation of ARM chips, like perhaps ARM32, than it is to the ARM line in general. It would be weird to say "64-bit ARMv5" in the same way that it would be weird to say "lactating fish". But it is not weird to say "64-bit ARM" for the same reason it isn't weird to say "lactating euteleostome."
- tekproxy 5y agoWhile this is a better analogy and worth reading, "fish" is funnier.
- vanderZwan 5y agoI appreciate that you used my bad joke as a fact-checking opportunity to spread some scientific knowledge :)
- birdyrooster 5y agoWe take our analogies very seriously here, no jokes sir.
- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 5y agoYou guys are going to have to eat these words when fishermen off the coast of Madagascar pull up an example of Pisces lactatus.
- vanderZwan 5y agoIs that the scientific designation of mermaid fantasies of lonely fishermen?