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  • Shhalahr@beehaw.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzme & him
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    3 months ago

    Pregnancy has been traditionally defined as the period of time eggs are incubated in the body after the egg-sperm union.[1] Although the term often refers to placental mammals, it has also been used in the titles of many international, peer-reviewed, scientific articles on fish, e.g. Consistent with this definition, there are several modes of reproduction in fish, providing different amounts of parental care

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_in_fish

    Going off of this, it’s just a matter of the term “pregnancy” being co-opted to describe something completely different from what it means in its original context. As does happen, even in science.














  • The point isn’t there being a ‘real’ solution. The point is that there wasn’t really a problem to begin with. This is more like when your party assumes a door is trapped and takes an hour to decide how to approach it, but the door was really just a rotted normal door ready to fall off its hinges.