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Originally Posted by yahwe
Dante's point is presumably that it is extremely silly to use 'percentage of shared genetic code' as the basis for a system of taxonomy
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Except it isn't; phylogeny increasingly uses genetic methods instead of traditional methods, such as cladistics. There's still some problems, of course; the seperation of the arthropods into distinct groups is controversial, with genetic evidence disagreeing with other kinds.
The problem is, and always has been, that people don't realise how much 1% difference actually means.
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Originally Posted by horn
would you torture dogs and chimps if it made a tastey drink at the end of it? i mean torture like stabbing in the eye, acid baths, burning alive, beating, decapitating etc. AFTER ALL THEY HAVE NO SOUL LOL
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I wouldn't, I wouldn't object to other people doing it though.