I want to clarify something important. The Queen of England is not a lizard. She is, however, a chimpanzee, an ape, a monkey, a mammal, a reptile, and a fish.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Biologic taxonomy is a lot more of a mess than I realized. In theory it now is supposed to follow descent, but a lot of the existing divisions are historic. Once you give it the philosophic beady eye the sense slips away (as with every other system)
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Read part of a book on this recently, and didn't entirely follow it, but OFC it's complicated.
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One of my hobbies is going to wikipedia and watching the phylogenetics edit wars. Pick some species, go up its phylogenetic tree and see how the articles contradict each other.
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