>>39273160>Which is more important?The fact that they are not canines. Drop the red pill at my feet all you want, but as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't have to be any deeper than that. Plus, they do share a lot of similarities with felines. We can't just discredit that.
Maybe, there should be some word to describe the body structure that canines, hyenas, and thylacines all arrived at independently, but I don't think we should just call them all "canines" or something derived from that word. For some reason, I don't feel like dogs should get all that credit for a body structure that probably predates them. The word "insectoid" doesn't have this problem (I think), and it does show that we can separate body structure from species.
