Hate it when my scientific illustrations have fascist extremist symbols on it (hexbear.net)

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Its used as outgroup,

If you are doing a phylogenetic tree of all mammals its useful to include outsiders to "root" the tree, for example repitles and amphibia, but just some not all

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

ok makes sense, thanks for the explanation

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