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This means that when arguably the major system of terrestrial life (i.e., translation) booted up, it did so polyphyletically — i.e., as spatiotemporally separate events.
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Gordon's main point is that the biogeographic distribution of the tetrapods in the Late Devonian, coupled with the incongruence of molecular data, coupled with a knowledge of the range of environments occupied by early tetrapods, support the contention that the tetrapods may have arisen polyphyletically.
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UCLA biologist Malcolm Gordon (a tenured professor, actually), who has argued that the tetrapods may have evolved polyphyletically (i.e., more than once).
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UCLA biologist Malcolm Gordon (a tenured professor, actually), who has argued that the tetrapods may have evolved polyphyletically (i.e., more than once).
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(The ribosome and its associated machinery, on this view, also evolve polyphyletically.
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(The ribosome and its associated machinery, on this view, also evolve polyphyletically.
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