• @muhyb@programming.dev
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        43 months ago

        Probably not the gills. Once you go lungs you never go back, looking at all those mammals in the ocean.

        • rockerface 🇺🇦
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          33 months ago

          How do we know none of the fish species never had lungs? Isn’t it impossible to define a fish biologically without excluding a whole bunch of land living species?

          • @muhyb@programming.dev
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            33 months ago

            We probably can’t. It’s just lungs are more complex than gills and usually evolution goes towards to more complex systems. If you’re talking about classification, I wouldn’t say impossible. Though I’m not a taxonomist.

    • eighty
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      53 months ago

      honestly, it’s for it to decide (As a human I’d whisper stay the course, hands are overrated and gave me taxes)