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We're not done you phylogenetic bitch.
>>16388067
>If you’re not grouping by phylogeny and specifically by monophyletic groups, then you’re a retarded outdated autist.
Sorry champ, the retard is you. Mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds all evolved from fish, but are not themselves fish. Before you even break out your precious brackets, take a look at some common descriptors for mammals and whales already look sus as fuck if you're trying to argue they're fish. Whales sharing a polyphyletic group with certain fish does not make them fish. A marine whale is not a fish simply because it's warm blooded like a tuna. With 530 million years of evolution, there are exceptions to almost all descriptors of fish. So the term "fish" refers not only to "a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water," but also to a PARAPHYLETIC group. Whale don't make the cutoff in either sense of the term. You're done.