00:01
How is it that morphological data alone might lead scientific group animals due to erroneous evolutionary relationships? so, morphological data is kind of just like, you know, the physical features that organism has.
00:13
And the issue is that is that morphological similarities between animals may only be superficial similarities and may not indicate a true evolutionary relationship.
00:23
One of the reasons for this is certain morphological traits can evolve along very different evolutionary branches for similar ecological.
00:30
Reasons.
00:32
What this means is, i mean, if you can take a look at these things right here, and we have four different organisms, we have a hippopotamus, a dolphin, an itchtheosaur, and an iguana.
00:45
Now, if you were to base this off of morphological reasonings, you would probably think that these two might be related.
00:54
But that's wrong.
00:55
Dolphins are mammal, and ithesors are reptiles.
00:59
They just live in a very similar environment, so they have very similar appearances.
01:06
We can also say this for the land animals.
01:09
They live in similar environments...