Even-toed fingerprints on whale ancestry

Michel C. Milinkovitch and J. G. M. Thewissen
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Michel C. Milinkovitch: Unit of Evolutionary Genetics, Free University of Brussels
J. G. M. Thewissen: College of Medicine

Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6643, 622-623

Abstract: A new study indicates that cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) form a clade with artiodactyls (pigs, hippos, camels and ruminants) -- that is, they have a common ancestor that is not shared by any other group of mammals. These radical new findings could mean that a cow is more closely related to a dolphin or whale than to a pig or a camel.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/41650

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