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While not exactly related a significant contribution has recently been published- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37094905/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3709
by xipho 3y ago
While not exactly related a significant contribution has recently been published- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37094905/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37094905/ in a journal. Tools like this help tease out what things "really" are, as they give a hypothetical context (as opposed to claiming one-true-truth) to help one think about things. Evolution has repeatedly converged on what people would say are the "same" thing many times, this is well understood. Deeply understanding the vastness of biologically diversity, as others have alluded to in the comments, is still relegated to such a tiny minority of human minds that finding a common language to express the nuances discovered with the rest of humanity remains a challenge.