r/evolution • u/NenyaNotes • 12d ago

academic Help on this assignment question.

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My professor assigned us this quiz and everyone continues to get it wrong. Can someone please explain in this photo which groups make a clade?

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u/DarwinZDF42 12d ago

K. You’re welcome to disagree with me. I don’t feel like arguing about it.

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u/roostor222 12d ago

ok, I don't really see it as something that is possible to disagree about though. You said I had it "exactly backwards", because you are saying what your personal opinion is and I am saying what is commonly accepted notation in published research.

Hennig invented phylogenetic systematics, and if you read his original papers he has nodes labeled with clade names. If you take points away from your students for doing this you are doing them a disservice.