• muhyb@programming.dev
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        19 hours ago

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

        • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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          17 hours 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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            14 hours 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.

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      1 day ago

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