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Come@Me: If Birds are Dinosaurs I’m a Monkey’s Uncle

10,000 Birds

For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”. For example, it would make a huge amount of sense for suspensory feeding monkeys to have six, not four, limbs. A term like “hooved animals” is monophyletic and a perfectly sound adaptive group, except for the whales.

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