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minus-square@L1tolinkEnglish26•1 month agoNot all liquids are, or come from mercury, while all tretapods come from fishes. So that logic doesn’t work.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-1•1 month agoI agree. All animals and plants are single celled.
minus-squarewanderercakelinkEnglish4•1 month ago‘Single celled’ is a characteristic, not a lineage. Organisms don’t necessarily have the same characteristics as their ancestors.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 month agoYou’re seriously splitting hairs about lineage when you know humans are obviously not fish.
minus-squarewanderercakelinkEnglish1•1 month agoA species can not evolve out of a clade. I am not splitting hairs, I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month ago I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid. Obviously you are not, since fish are not considered a monophyletic group.
minus-squarewanderercakelinkEnglish1•1 month 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
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-1•1 month agoYes but “mammals are tetrapods” is the incorrect one
Not all liquids are, or come from mercury, while all tretapods come from fishes. So that logic doesn’t work.
I agree. All animals and plants are single celled.
‘Single celled’ is a characteristic, not a lineage. Organisms don’t necessarily have the same characteristics as their ancestors.
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.
Yes but “mammals are tetrapods” is the incorrect one