Yes, the problem phrase being “you can’t evolve out of a clade.” Every terrestrial animal is therefore a type a fish, and every fish is a worm, and we’re also all bacteria, etc.
A lot of people who say they agree with the idea (because you can’t really argue with the smaller scale usefulness of it) don’t like the actual larger implications and seemingly want a more vibe based classification, which is pointless. They’ll say things like “that’s why there is no fish clade” until you ask them what the clade of our earliest discernable fish ancestors was then, and how it’s different than “fish.”
All Wyverns are a type of Dragon!
Yes, the problem phrase being “you can’t evolve out of a clade.” Every terrestrial animal is therefore a type a fish, and every fish is a worm, and we’re also all bacteria, etc.
A lot of people who say they agree with the idea (because you can’t really argue with the smaller scale usefulness of it) don’t like the actual larger implications and seemingly want a more vibe based classification, which is pointless. They’ll say things like “that’s why there is no fish clade” until you ask them what the clade of our earliest discernable fish ancestors was then, and how it’s different than “fish.”
Hmm, if it is useful, it does not need to make sense.