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[redbird]

Tidying the art is endless. You can't have "shark" as an outgroup for a cladogram that includes "fish."

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[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Is it possible that someone in there mentally translated "fish" to Osteichthyes and back without realising ?

[drplokta]

You can't have fish in a cladogram at all. They have no common ancestor that's not also an ancestor of all land vertebrates, so they're not a clade.

[redbird]

"Fish" aren't a clade. There are groups of fish that are.

Also, technically this isn't a cladogram--sharks are paraphyletic--and isn't labeled as such, it just says that it shows evolutionary relationships.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

They mean regular -- non bitey -- fish.

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[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who read that first sentence and was made happy by the truism? I'm thinking not just of Van Gogh but of the process of creating art, and spaces for same (cf. maryread's basement).

The erudition contained in the first three comments to the post adds icing to the cake.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who read that first sentence and was made happy by the truism?

No, you're not. Although I was immediately out of my depth (pun intentional) thereafter, that first sentence just SHINES.