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Human are an advanced bio mech suit for bacteria. Human cells - 37 trillion (majority red blood cells). Bacteria in the human body - 38 trillion.
There is a non-zero chance that the human consciousness is the product of bacteria forming a mesh neural network that hijacks the human brain’s voluntary functions. It could explain why some people suffer emotional distress while under antibiotics (I get severe depression).
Just playing with ideas.
Here’s my out-there take on consciousness:
Picture a surface of incredibly high but stable energies, like the one on a pulsar. Now imagine that those energies manage to shake a fundamental consciousness field hard enough at a large enough scale, that virtual consciousness and anti-consciousness pairs constantly bubble in and out of existence.
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Ducks are avians, thus descended from dinosaurs.
Anatomically, the hoof of a horse is equivalent to a human middle fingernail.
There are “sea bees” tiny crustaceans that are pollinators of underwater plants. Both crustaceans and “bugs” are arthropods.
Not sure about the pterodactyl fish reference.
Redwoods and all plants really descend from photosynthetic algae.
About 8% of the human genome is composed of ancient viral DNA from viruses that integrated into DNA…
I believe the pterodactyl, like most (all?) dinos descended from aquatic life forms. Dunno, though.
Yeah, all life from the ocean but its a bit more of a stretch to say pterodactyl are fishes.
Any scientific definition of ‘fish’ which includes all the things we commonly consider to be fish also includes basically all animal life on earth (including humans and, presumably, pterodactyls).
Edit: Though generally this is avoided by declaring that ‘fish’ is not an evolutionary category.
No argument there 🤣
Well everything is a fish or fish don’t exist.
It’s cladistics.
“Theoretically, a last common ancestor and all its descendants constitute a (minimal) clade. Importantly, all descendants stay in their overarching ancestral clade. For example, if the terms worms or fishes were used within a strict cladistic framework, these terms would include humans.”
so basically it’s a language problem, not a biology problem? people are incorrectly assuming that any group of species with a word to describe it must be monophyletic, and therefore include all unrelated species which would make it monophyletic?
I’m honestly surprised this isn’t better understood in this community, at least as an approach to the tree of life system of classification, with or without its merits. I didn’t go to college and went to public school that suppressed science education, but this was how I came to understand evolution and that all types of life had a universal common ancestor.
I’m not speaking to the accuracy of the meme, and the science community at large has its criticisms of cladistics, but I’m not sure I would define this as a problem of biology or language, or a problem at all. It is the most common method of evolutionary classification at this time.
Keep in mind I’m a blue collar worker on my lunch break and not a scientist nor college educated. I just like to learn in my free time about a bunch of stuff.
Pretty much. It helps if you think the word “dinosaur” has two partially overlapping meanings:
- Cladistic: every single descendant of the last common ancestor between the triceratops and a duck, including both.
- Popular: a bunch of extinct animals like the T-Rex, velociraptor, triceratops, etc. Plus animals visually resembling them, regardless of cladistic classification. Notably, it does not includes Aves aka modern birds.
So for example. Turkeys would fit #1 but not #2. Depending on the person, dimetrodons and pterosaurs would fit #2, but not #1 [see note]. A T-rex would fit both.
In other words if your kid asks you “I want to see the dinos on a screen!”, do not bring them to see a rotisserie chicken being roasted. I repeat, do not. They’re using “dino” for meaning #2.
NOTE: pterosaurs aren’t from the clade Dinosauria, but from a distantly related clade called Pterosauria. Dimetrodons are synapsids so they’re closer to us mammals than to Dinosauria.
Redwoods are algae???
“Pterodactyls are fish” seems disingenuous to insert when two of the previous ones are about pedantic taxonomy facts (which are true). “Fish” are paraphyletic and thus not an actual taxon, but as a practical group, it’s all non-tetrapod vertebrates – and order Pterosauria are decidedly tetrapods.
It’s trying to be pedantic in a cheeky way but just ends up being wrong.
Edit: Just so I balance this out, though, anyone wanting to be humorously pedantic about aquatic taxonomy should check out WoRMS (the World Register of Marine Species). They’ve always been, to me, the most up-to-date source on the taxonomy of marine, freshwater, and brackish biota short of reading the actual scientific literature.
I find pedants are often wrong or completely missing the point.
Sometimes it triggers a fun discussion. and sometimes it’s just tedious.
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ghoticould never be pronounced like “fish” because “gh” only sounds like an F near the end of a word afterauorou, but ghoti is at least an interesting way to bring up the topic of weird inconsistencies of the english language, even if it’s wrong)My favorite way to slap an English speaker in the face with the silly irregularities of English pronunciation is to show them the 1920 poem The Chaos.
For those like me that never even tried to pronounce english correctly and consequently can’t grasp the actual “chaos” hidden in that poem: The chaos (YT)
Bill Hicks was right, “We’re a virus with shoes.”
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a dinosaur.
Humans are full virus
Careful you don’t get banned for being an eco fascist. 🫣
Eco-rebel, TBF. ☝🏼
Humans share a common ancestor with tardigrades.
Almost everything is a worm. Not just in heredity, but also in form. You are a worm that uses long mineral deposits and muscles to stand erect and move around in an erect position for some reason. Weirdest worm.
Hoxers unite!
You can go to the endgame directly: every and all living organisms share a common ancestor.
every and all living organisms [that we know of]
Below the iceberg: “Not all dogs have bones”
It’s homologous with a human’s middle finger. That doesn’t make it a middle finger.
Aren’t whales related to cows?
Yes but not that closely. The Artiodactyla (order) tree goes like this:
