Why do Phylogenetic taxonomists insist that no "extant lineages" are "ancestral" or more "primitive" than any other extant lineages. Surely today's fish are somehow "closer" to the fish ancestor of land tetrapods than a dolphin or human, right?
by /u/rrtaylor in /r/askscience
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