Haha, didn't sleep much last night. Been trying to wrap up an essay on the origins of the novel and its evolution; ie the ways that human thought pattens have shifted and subverted themselves, expanded and regressed. Nonsense is therapeutic after eight hours of writing.
I'm actually using Polypterus in the essay to make a point--despite being so far from axolotls both geographically and on the phylogenetic tree, both polys and axolotls evolved extremely similar external gill structures. Its called convergent evolution. Something similar happened with language in our species. Completely removed from one another, groups of our ancestors began developing speech independently and would later do the same with stories and eventually "novels." Crazy stuff.
That post was supposed to be a metaphor meaning that all things are so closely related that you can't really be off topic. Ie, you can't derail a post because all things relate back to the op.
I donno lol. I'm exhausted and still have a lot more to write.