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6/29/2025, 6:59:53 AM
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>and none of that is any sign of being "less evolved"
Are you deliberately just missing the point of what I was saying?
>you're looking at evolution as a goal-oriented process anon, which it is in fact not
No, I'm not. I'm looking at evolution as it is. There are branches and nodes on the tree of life, and creatures split off from it at different times. That's how our classification system works, for what it's worth. Taxonomically speaking, you can never evolve out of a group so all humans, lizards, birds, horses, and whales are fish, but all fish and octopi are sponges.
That being the case, octopi diverged from the "main" branch of life 500+ million years ago. Their last common ancestor with the "main" branch was some time in the Cambrian or Ordovician. Octopi are an incredibly distant animal branch.
>and none of that is any sign of being "less evolved"
Are you deliberately just missing the point of what I was saying?
>you're looking at evolution as a goal-oriented process anon, which it is in fact not
No, I'm not. I'm looking at evolution as it is. There are branches and nodes on the tree of life, and creatures split off from it at different times. That's how our classification system works, for what it's worth. Taxonomically speaking, you can never evolve out of a group so all humans, lizards, birds, horses, and whales are fish, but all fish and octopi are sponges.
That being the case, octopi diverged from the "main" branch of life 500+ million years ago. Their last common ancestor with the "main" branch was some time in the Cambrian or Ordovician. Octopi are an incredibly distant animal branch.
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