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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•edit-22 months agoGuess they are the Trilobites Horseshoe Crabs of plants: Done with evolution. Edit: mixed that up.
minus-square@samus12345linkEnglish12•edit-22 months agoBut trilobites have been extinct for over 250 million years.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-22 months agoI guess that analogy was the coelacanth of lemmy comments. Extinct.
minus-square@samus12345linkEnglish5•edit-22 months agoIt wasn’t wrong that they’re done with evolution, but it doesn’t work as an analogy because ginkgos and magnolias still exist. Perhaps they were thinking of the horseshoe crab, which has changed relatively little in 445 million years.
Guess they are the
TrilobitesHorseshoe Crabs of plants: Done with evolution.Edit: mixed that up.
But trilobites have been extinct for over 250 million years.
I guess that analogy was the coelacanth of lemmy comments. Extinct.
It wasn’t wrong that they’re done with evolution, but it doesn’t work as an analogy because ginkgos and magnolias still exist. Perhaps they were thinking of the horseshoe crab, which has changed relatively little in 445 million years.