@[email protected]M to Science [email protected]English • 6 months agoWhales is whalesmander.xyzimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1344arrow-down114
arrow-up1330arrow-down1imageWhales is whalesmander.xyz@[email protected]M to Science [email protected]English • 6 months agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squareanamelinkfedilinkEnglish0•6 months agoYou’re seriously splitting hairs about lineage when you know humans are obviously not fish.
minus-squarewandererlinkEnglish1•6 months agoA species can not evolve out of a clade. I am not splitting hairs, I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid.
minus-squareanamelinkfedilinkEnglish1•6 months ago I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid. Obviously you are not, since fish are not considered a monophyletic group.
minus-squarewandererlinkEnglish1•6 months 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.