• Soup@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Almost all” means that if you pull six-legged animals names outnof a hat you’re nearly guaranteed to find an insect. Doesn’t mean you can’t pull the non-insect first try, and doesn’t mean that centaurs must be insects.

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      1 year ago

      This bias is to biology only found in our experience. What if theres an alien physiology that ruins this argument.

    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
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      They’d still be an arthropod even if they weren’t a species of insect. So I guess the question is whether all six-legged arthropods have ovipositors. Sounds likely.