“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.
This bias is to biology only found in our experience. What if theres an alien physiology that ruins this argument.
No alien species counts as an animal taxinomically. A similar extraterrestrial ecosystem would likely result in reclassifications to add planet of greatest ancestral origin. Life seeders would make taxonomy even harder.
I’d argue centaur world is its own tree of life until proof exists that earth life and centaur world life had a common ancestor.
sigh Okay scientist, you can look at my dragon dick
… For science
“Wait, what’s the mould for?”
Exactly.
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.
‘Almost all’ makes me wonder about what the other ones are
Crustaceans, probably.
Don’t most of them have 8 or more limbs?
Yes, most do. The question wasn’t about most.
You mean, “sea bugs?”
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Springtails?
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