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minus-squareL1to@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·1 year agoNot all liquids are, or come from mercury, while all tretapods come from fishes. So that logic doesn’t work.
minus-squareshastaxc@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoYes but “mammals are tetrapods” is the incorrect one
minus-squareanamelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoI agree. All animals and plants are single celled.
minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year ago‘Single celled’ is a characteristic, not a lineage. Organisms don’t necessarily have the same characteristics as their ancestors.
minus-squareanamelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoYou’re seriously splitting hairs about lineage when you know humans are obviously not fish.
minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoA species can not evolve out of a clade. I am not splitting hairs, I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid.
minus-squareanamelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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-up1·1 year 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
Not all liquids are, or come from mercury, while all tretapods come from fishes. So that logic doesn’t work.
Yes but “mammals are tetrapods” is the incorrect one
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.