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Something fishy in the family tree

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  • Per Erik Ahlberg

    (The Natural History Museum)

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The bony fishes gave rise to two living subgroups, the ray-finned fishes, and the lobe-fins and tetrapods (or land vertebrates, including ourselves). An analysis of the evolutionary position of a 400-million-year-old fossil both adds to the current picture of bony-fish origins and complicates it — the fossil has such a mix of characteristics that large parts of the vertebrate family tree come into question.

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  • Per Erik Ahlberg, 1999. "Something fishy in the family tree," Nature, Nature, vol. 397(6720), pages 564-565, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:397:y:1999:i:6720:d:10.1038_17484
    DOI: 10.1038/17484
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