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minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-24 months agoBut trilobites have been extinct for over 250 million years.
minus-squareAlolanYoda@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-24 months agoI guess that analogy was the coelacanth of lemmy comments. Extinct.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-24 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.
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.