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Aug 12 2017, 10:48 AM
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Besides you can't consider an organism without its phylogeny:
actually, not the point of this thread; an organism's uniqueness can be phylogenic, but doesn't have to be.
Not true: nothing can be unique or different (ie. apomorphic) without a reference point.
Which doesn't have to be classification? Look at my yapok post - it's obviously unique because I state it's the only living marsupial with these features, which is purely about anatomy, and because people know that mammals don't have six digits. In that latter case common knowledge itself is the reference point.
The thread is "obscure taxa", not "unique taxa". Anything that's interesting enough to write a post about is fair game, and I don't consider something to be automatically uninteresting just because it doesn't technically have any major traits that aren't shared by similar groups or species. Every organism is a combination of features that make it something unique. I have to disagree, if there's nothing weird or interesting about it what's the point?
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Has anyone nominated Trichoplax? This odd organism is a definite animal that lacks bodily symmetry and seems more advanced than sponges, shares with them a syncytium (as in some fungi) and lacks synapomorphies of eumetazoans or poriferans. The are said to reproduce sexually but curiously lack the Broule protein found in other metazoans with a male sex. Although supposed eggs have been observed, they degrade typically at the 32–64 cell stage so embryonic development (nor sperm) have not been observed. Without larvae their ontogeny cannot be compared that of either sponges or eumetazoans. Trichoplax is simply a living plaque that crawls over food on cilia, engulfs it and digests it in what seems to hint the origin of the stomach: Trichoplax sexual(?) behaviour might hint that genetic recombination arose from regeneration prior to the evolution of dioecious sexes: yet if so and assuming Trichoplax nests within Metazoa, how does one explain dioecious sponges? Metazoa is reconstructed as primitively dioecious. A sponge would not evolve from a Trichoplax-like ancestor without degeneration. Morphological data puts Trichoplax crownwards of sponges and stemward of cnidarians. Trichoplax lacks synapomorphies of eumetazoans such as nerve and muscle cells or mesoglea, but shares with them synapomorphies such as epithelial cells and true tissue organisation.
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Besides you can't consider an organism without its phylogeny:
actually, not the point of this thread; an organism's uniqueness can be phylogenic, but doesn't have to be.
Not true: nothing can be unique or different (ie. apomorphic) without a reference point.
Which doesn't have to be classification? Look at my yapok post - it's obviously unique because I state it's the only living marsupial with these features, which is purely about anatomy, and because people know that mammals don't have six digits. In that latter case common knowledge itself is the reference point.
The thread is "obscure taxa", not "unique taxa". Anything that's interesting enough to write a post about is fair game, and I don't consider something to be automatically uninteresting just because it doesn't technically have any major traits that aren't shared by similar groups or species. Every organism is a combination of features that make it something unique.
I have to disagree, if there's nothing weird or interesting about it what's the point? Why does it have to be apomorphic to be weird or interesting? The thread is supposed to be about obscure species that some might not be aware of, and even organisms that are fairly "typical" to those who are familiar with their groups will be pretty interesting if you're just learning about them for the first time.
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Aug 12 2017, 02:13 PM
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Besides you can't consider an organism without its phylogeny:
actually, not the point of this thread; an organism's uniqueness can be phylogenic, but doesn't have to be.
Not true: nothing can be unique or different (ie. apomorphic) without a reference point.
Which doesn't have to be classification? Look at my yapok post - it's obviously unique because I state it's the only living marsupial with these features, which is purely about anatomy, and because people know that mammals don't have six digits. In that latter case common knowledge itself is the reference point.
The thread is "obscure taxa", not "unique taxa". Anything that's interesting enough to write a post about is fair game, and I don't consider something to be automatically uninteresting just because it doesn't technically have any major traits that aren't shared by similar groups or species. Every organism is a combination of features that make it something unique.
I have to disagree, if there's nothing weird or interesting about it what's the point? You may want to reread what Hanging said. He literally said a combination of individually mundane features can be unique or interesting.
I mean, using your Yapok as an example, neither being a south-american marsupial, nor being amphibious or having a number of digits other than 5 are each in themselves unique or interesting. But the combination is.
Edit: At any rate I don't see the repeated obsession with "but this species isn't worthy of getting an entry here". I mean, this thread has long since evolved into "post interesting species here" and I'm totally fine with that. I come here to learn something new, not to compare each entry with an arbitrary checklist of "obscureness" or "uniqueness".
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You may want to reread what Hanging said. He literally said a combination of individually mundane features can be unique or interesting.
I mean, using your Yapok as an example, neither being a south-american marsupial, nor being amphibious or having a number of digits other than 5 are each in themselves unique or interesting. But the combination is.
I hardly see how having six digits, being the only living semi-aquatic marsupial, and the only living marsupial where both sexes have pouches are in any way "mundane" on their won. It's interesting because the unique features it has are interesting, and if they weren't it wouldn't be and I really wouldn't care about it in order to think it has any place in this thread. I guess we just agree to disagree on this.
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But Souls are delicious. They're like bacon - they taste good on anything. But if you eat them, you completely remove them from existence! They can't move on or... or be reincarnated! Huh. I never really gave it much thought. Besides, what do you mean by reincarnation anyway? You know, being reborn as someone or something else. Which means different body, different memories, different experiences, yes? So isn't being reborn as "something else" the same as being "removed from existence"? I... I... eating souls isn't right! That depends on your definition of "right". All living things survive by eating other living things. So what? You're a god. You should be above all that! Gods are above living things, which doesn't necessarily mean we care about them.
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I really wouldn't care about it in order to think it has any place in this thread. That's subjective. We already had a pointless argument about animals being "obscure enough", and discussing whether there should be a standard of uniqueness is no different. If someone takes the time to make a post here, chances are the organism caught their interest for whatever reason. If you personally found it boring because it doesn't have enough traits that set it apart from other things, so what? Maybe someone else enjoyed learning about it.
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You may want to reread what Hanging said. He literally said a combination of individually mundane features can be unique or interesting.
I mean, using your Yapok as an example, neither being a south-american marsupial, nor being amphibious or having a number of digits other than 5 are each in themselves unique or interesting. But the combination is.
I hardly see how having six digits, being the only living semi-aquatic marsupial, and the only living marsupial where both sexes have pouches are in any way "mundane" on their won. It's interesting because the unique features it has are interesting, and if they weren't it wouldn't be and I really wouldn't care about it in order to think it has any place in this thread. I guess we just agree to disagree on this. I'm fine with both definitions. its the implications of Kusanagi's statement that is worrysome: something can only be fit for this thread if its cladistically unique is the impression the statement gave me...aardvarks, yes; (o)possums, no.
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You may want to reread what Hanging said. He literally said a combination of individually mundane features can be unique or interesting.
I mean, using your Yapok as an example, neither being a south-american marsupial, nor being amphibious or having a number of digits other than 5 are each in themselves unique or interesting. But the combination is.
I hardly see how having six digits, being the only living semi-aquatic marsupial, and the only living marsupial where both sexes have pouches are in any way "mundane" on their won. It's interesting because the unique features it has are interesting, and if they weren't it wouldn't be and I really wouldn't care about it in order to think it has any place in this thread. I guess we just agree to disagree on this.
I'm fine with both definitions. its the implications of Kusanagi's statement that is worrysome: something can only be fit for this thread if its cladistically unique is the impression the statement gave me...aardvarks, yes; (o)possums, no. That's just dumb.
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You may want to reread what Hanging said. He literally said a combination of individually mundane features can be unique or interesting.
I mean, using your Yapok as an example, neither being a south-american marsupial, nor being amphibious or having a number of digits other than 5 are each in themselves unique or interesting. But the combination is.
I hardly see how having six digits, being the only living semi-aquatic marsupial, and the only living marsupial where both sexes have pouches are in any way "mundane" on their won. It's interesting because the unique features it has are interesting, and if they weren't it wouldn't be and I really wouldn't care about it in order to think it has any place in this thread. I guess we just agree to disagree on this.
I'm fine with both definitions. its the implications of Kusanagi's statement that is worrysome: something can only be fit for this thread if its cladistically unique is the impression the statement gave me...aardvarks, yes; (o)possums, no. Sorry, Yapoks are unique BECAUSE of their phylogenetic placement.
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You may want to reread what Hanging said. He literally said a combination of individually mundane features can be unique or interesting.
I mean, using your Yapok as an example, neither being a south-american marsupial, nor being amphibious or having a number of digits other than 5 are each in themselves unique or interesting. But the combination is.
I hardly see how having six digits, being the only living semi-aquatic marsupial, and the only living marsupial where both sexes have pouches are in any way "mundane" on their won. It's interesting because the unique features it has are interesting, and if they weren't it wouldn't be and I really wouldn't care about it in order to think it has any place in this thread. I guess we just agree to disagree on this.
I'm fine with both definitions. its the implications of Kusanagi's statement that is worrysome: something can only be fit for this thread if its cladistically unique is the impression the statement gave me...aardvarks, yes; (o)possums, no.
Sorry, Yapoks are unique BECAUSE of their phylogenetic placement. i'm sorry, I clearly missed all the articles and books about the other amphibious and semi-aquatic marsupials; perhaps you can name a few? much appreciated.
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I feel that the Yapok discussion is a waste of time and should stop, we have established the consensus of what this topic is about and with what purpose people are publishing species, it seems too farfetched to continue to mark what makes such animal "unique".
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I must say, I had never said anything against this, I was more worried that you would continue with IIGS generating huge quoted text walls of cladistic discussions on this topic since in many of your talks tends to post with huge amounts of text, continuously quoting each other even if the previous post is near and isnt cut by other post, and in some cases coming out of the main topic and discussing things that are not relevant for the main topic.
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Not true: nothing can be unique or different (ie. apomorphic) without a reference point.
So pufferfishes making elaborate nests in the sand with interesting geometric will not be worth to be unique if I do not establish the phylogeny of the group to which it belongs?
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Aug 13 2017, 06:32 AM
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You seem to be misunderstanding my position if you think i am saying there cant be an unusually interesting pufferfish. If some pufferfish is interesting because it makes geometric nests, it is only so because such is apomorphic among pufferfish. Which is a statement of phylogenetic context, si? And if the whole group is interesting because it inflates or has a beak or whatever, that is also a matter of phylogenetic context, si?
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Aug 13 2017, 11:16 AM
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If some pufferfish is interesting because it makes geometric nests, it is only so because such is apomorphic among pufferfish. Which is a statement of phylogenetic context, si? behaviors can differ without even being different subspecies, so no.
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Aug 13 2017, 11:20 AM
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If some pufferfish is interesting because it makes geometric nests, it is only so because such is apomorphic among pufferfish. Which is a statement of phylogenetic context, si?
behaviors can differ without even being different subspecies, so no. Subspecies are taxa, taxa are arbitrary and in any case taxonomy is just the labels, population is what counts. Think how different bushmen and pygmies are to everyone else. Or more shocking still, the natural differences between dog breeds though selective breeders did not engineer the most striking ones, like vegetarian dogs in Polynesia, the climbing telomian and the like... I do not need to point out the importance of domestic animal diversity for understandiing evolution as Darwin did two centuries ago. Taxonomy =/= phylogeny. If its unusual it stands out from its closest relatives (if they are even known).
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Aug 13 2017, 01:15 PM
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- Aug 13 2017, 06:32 AM
If some pufferfish is interesting because it makes geometric nests, it is only so because such is apomorphic among pufferfish. Which is a statement of phylogenetic context, si?
behaviors can differ without even being different subspecies, so no.
Subspecies are taxa, taxa are arbitrary and in any case taxonomy is just the labels, population is what counts. Think how different bushmen and pygmies are to everyone else. Or more shocking still, the natural differences between dog breeds though selective breeders did not engineer the most striking ones, like vegetarian dogs in Polynesia, the climbing telomian and the like... I do not need to point out the importance of domestic animal diversity for understandiing evolution as Darwin did two centuries ago. Taxonomy =/= phylogeny. If its unusual it stands out from its closest relatives (if they are even known). please stop moving the goalposts.
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