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You can’t choose your family…the LCA of synapsids and sauropsids
Mammals are the only surviving members of the synapsids, a group that split from the sauropsids, which includes all of the groups that we think of as “reptiles” as well as dinosaurs, birds, and crocodilians. This split happenedĀ sometime around 300 … Continue reading