myrmepropagandist on Nostr: Can some real biology people weigh in on how you feel about calling a stem group, now ...
Can some real biology people weigh in on how you feel about calling a stem group, now extinct "evolutionary dead ends" or "dead branches on the tree of life" etc?
To me it's clear and evocative, but it also feels like the kind of glib phrase that is perpetuating some misconception about how evolution works.
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