fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years agoWhales is whalesmander.xyzimagemessage-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up1357arrow-down115
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minus-squareaname@lemmy.onedeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 years agoYou’re seriously splitting hairs about lineage when you know humans are obviously not fish.
minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoA species can not evolve out of a clade. I am not splitting hairs, I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid.
minus-squareaname@lemmy.onedeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years ago I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid. Obviously you are not, since fish are not considered a monophyletic group.
minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoBony fish (Osteichthyes) is monophyletic. However, since 2013 widely cited ichthyology papers have been published with phylogenetic trees that treat the Osteichthyes as a clade including tetrapods
You’re seriously splitting hairs about lineage when you know humans are obviously not fish.
A species can not evolve out of a clade. I am not splitting hairs, I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid.
Obviously you are not, since fish are not considered a monophyletic group.
Bony fish (Osteichthyes) is monophyletic.