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Primitive Frogs And Phylogenetic Fallacies
Tue, 2010-07-27 00:55 — Anonymous
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As I have explained in various blog posts and in this paper, it is a fallacy to assume that any one character found in a so-called "primitive" species alive today was also found in the ancestral species. All living species are modern species, and "primitive" vs. "derived" refers to characters, not whole species.
Anyway, New Scientist seems to have fallen for this in their interpretation of a recent paper.
Bellyflopping frogs shed light on evolution
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