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There's a maximum likelihood that I'm doing phylogenetics wrong.

https://explainxkcd.com/3010/

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[โ€“] EarMaster@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure pentagons are a subspecies of bestagons...

[โ€“] kinsnik@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

all are just subspecies of the bestagons:

  • circles are just curvy hexagons
  • polygons are just flawed hexagons
  • triangles are just partial hexagons