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[dreamer_easy]

Ask me about any of my icons and/or interests and receive an explanatory burble forthwith.

Comments

[pedanther]

What is "top clade!"?

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

and more specifically, what the hell is that thing in Cryptozoa - Top Clade!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

That would be one of these:

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

A clade is all the descendants of a common ancestor. Any clade I happen to belong to is of course the top clade - eukaryotes (I have nuclei), gnathostomates (I have a jaw), eutheria (I could make a placenta if I wanted to), etc. Whenever I post about an animal, I try to use the icon for a clade we both belong to.

(Love your UFO icon, btw. :-)