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  • Re: Maybe it is not a mammal

    From Popping Mad@rainbow@colition.gov to sci.bio.paleontology on Tue Jan 16 21:25:52 2024
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    On 1/15/24 21:58, Peter Nyikos wrote:
    opping Mad has the late Isaac Asimov on his side: he wanted desperately for monotremes to be non-mammalian therapsids.


    If I am reading the genetics hear correctly, Platpus is not related to
    any modern monotremes.
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  • From John Harshman@john.harshman@gmail.com to sci.bio.paleontology on Tue Jan 16 18:45:17 2024
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    On 1/16/24 6:25 PM, Popping Mad wrote:
    On 1/15/24 21:58, Peter Nyikos wrote:
    opping Mad has the late Isaac Asimov on his side: he wanted desperately for >> monotremes to be non-mammalian therapsids.


    If I am reading the genetics hear correctly, Platpus is not related to
    any modern monotremes.

    You are not reading the genetics correctly. The platypus *is* a modern monotreme, and its closest relatives are the other modern monotremes, echidnas.
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