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[-] Hoimo@ani.social 0 points 3 days ago

I don't understand why you'd ever need to know this. What is a phylum anyway? Which animals share a phylum? Are bonobos and chimpanzees in a phylum, a family, a class? And what does that tell us about their relation that we couldn't already tell from their characteristics?

[-] AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

The new thing seems to be "clades". I'm not sure if it's a complete replacement of the traditional taxonomy, though.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It isn't, it's just a description of evolutionary descent. An additional classification instead of a replacement.

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