At what point in classifying species do we draw the line…
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At what point in classifying species do we draw the line?
I'm not sure if I'll be able to properly articulate this in a way that will be easy to understand, but I'll do my best. Birds are dinosaurs because they descend from dinosaurs and thus belong to the clade dinosauria. They also share a lot of similarity to other dinosaurs from in their age of dominance. The question is, at what point would we stop calling them dinosaurs? Humans belong to Sarcopterygii, but we wouldn't say that humans are fish. So at what point would something like birds stop being called a dinosaur in the same sense that humans are no longer called fish?
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I'm not sure if I'll be able to properly articulate this in a way that will be easy to understand, but I'll do my best. Birds are dinosaurs because they descend from dinosaurs and thus belong to the clade dinosauria. They also share a lot of similarity to other dinosaurs from in their age of dominance. The question is, at what point would we stop calling them dinosaurs? Humans belong to Sarcopterygii, but we wouldn't say that humans are fish. So at what point would something like birds stop being called a dinosaur in the same sense that humans are no longer called fish?
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