• Enkrod@feddit.org
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    12 days ago

    Simiiformes is a clear and distinct clade.

    There is no such thing for trees, because “tree” is a botanical classification, not a cladistical one.

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      Simiiformes is a clear and distinct clade.

      Yes but who says that specific clade maps to the colloquial taxonomic word “monkey”?