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Because science is entirely relevant to the discussion of hard science fiction. Harder science fiction is respected when its more explainable principles stand up to accepted science. Science fiction is harder when its black box of conjecture and fantasy is smaller&mdash;the rest is not fictional science, but otherwise sound scientific principles in fiction.

And yes, I understand you study animals. But have you also studied ? ? ?  ?  In the layman's sense, humans are not fish&mdash;they just evolved from fish. But in the genetic sense, all humans are fish, because everything that evolved from the fish is part of the same family tree of the ancestral fish.

I've actually been the editor who maintains the species category tree, including the cladograms you see in category pages like Category:Mammals.