@hollowearthterf The belief that ducks can be eaten causes far more harm to ducks globally than anything ducks do to each other, so your initial judgment that their lives are valuable enough to warrant intervention in such situations collapses on itself when you advocate for their killing
@cursordancin Sure, but morphological phylogenies still retain some significance when it comes to establishing relationships between long extinct taxa and modern ones or adding weight to molecular phylogenies when they conflict with one another
@anonymesoul117@Visceral9000 Physical appearance=/=physical traits, in many cases morphological characters still carry a phylogenetic signal, whether or not they contribute to our general perceptual grasp
@AquaticFlapper The species comprising the ""true"" american lineages of Corvus may have had more time to reach South America but in spite of this they remain collectively even more spatially constrained than Northern Ravens both at central and north american scales