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Of Humans and Squids, with Martin Wallen

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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What Is the Terminological Confusion Between Squids, Octopuses and Cottlefishes?

The confusion has lus to do with moctopuses. That does with the two dacapods, cuttle fishes and squids. And there aristotle does say that the he doesalow for certain distinctions, and that is based on the quality of their flesh. So cuttle fishes, which swim closer to shore, she says, absorb more of the hard substances of the earth. Squids, he then just referred to as the tooth and the toths. Is really a confusion of what he the confusion is partly due to his, his vagueness, his accounts and to the later confusion oft of commentators and translators.

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