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minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months ago‘Single celled’ is a characteristic, not a lineage. Organisms don’t necessarily have the same characteristics as their ancestors.
minus-squareanamelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoYou’re seriously splitting hairs about lineage when you know humans are obviously not fish.
minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoA species can not evolve out of a clade. I am not splitting hairs, I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid.
minus-squareanamelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months 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-up1·8 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
‘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.