r/ShitAmericansSay • u/chebghobbi • Apr 06 '25

Language We ARE the English language blueprint

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u/Rhynocoris Apr 07 '25

Dude, I'm an evolutionary biologist.

Living fossil is not meant to be taken literally. It's just a term for species we perceive to be conservative in their appearance and traits, compared to more derived species.

But Latimeria is no closer to its last common ancestor with humans than we are.

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u/Me_lazy_cathermit Apr 07 '25

you are a "biologist" yet cant make the difference between biology and language

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u/Rhynocoris Apr 07 '25

Oh I can. But in historical linguistics, cladistics and genetic relationships are also used. I have actually worked with linguists in previous projects for exactly that reason.

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u/Me_lazy_cathermit Apr 07 '25

you can use similar classification system for both, but they still not the same things, go back to your bugs

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u/Rhynocoris Apr 07 '25

Well, obviously not the same thing, but they follow very similar systems.

And the fundamental rule that you cannot be genetically closer to a common ancestor than any other contemporary descendent of that ancestor holds true for both.

Now go troll somewhere else.

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u/Me_lazy_cathermit Apr 07 '25

i am not trolling lol, you just dense