clades!!

Oct. 31st, 2023 12:11 pm
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In Ann Leckie's Translation State, Presger Translator society thinks of itself in terms of clades--like lineages among plain old non-Presger Translator humans, but clade also has an everyday, this-world meaning, which is a taxonomical group that shares a common ancestor.

Humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons are in the hominoid clade. They share with Old- and New-World monkeys the clade of anthropoids. Anthropoids and prosimians (a group that includes lemurs and tarsiers) comprise the primate clade. Primates are part of the clade euarchontoglires, along with rodents and rabbits, and then comes the clade eurtheria, which are placental mammals... and eventually if you keep going, we all--and now I'm including plants, slime molds, and fungi--are in the clade eukaryota, and you have to go even further back to get a connection with bacteria and archaea.

Still, we're all family. Do you feel heartwarmed? I feel heartwarmed.

Date: 2023-10-31 09:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] yamamanama
I do find it interesting that our close non-chordate relatives include echinoderms, which are so completely unlike us.

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