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minus-square@lauhalinkEnglish2•1 month agoYou’re seriously splitting hairs about lineage when you know humans are obviously not fish.
minus-squarewandererlinkfedilinkEnglish1•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@lauhalinkEnglish1•1 month ago I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid. Obviously you are not, since fish are not considered a monophyletic group.
minus-squarewandererlinkfedilinkEnglish1•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
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.