Dimetrodon Response Paper
The article “Dimetrodon Is Not a Dinosaur: Using Tree Thinking to Understand the Ancient Relatives of Mammals and their Evolution” by Kenneth D. Angielczyk attempts to demystify the evolutionary history of mammals using evolutionary trees and succeeds in doing so. The author begins with the Dimetrodon as an example to demonstrate the power in using evolutionary trees. It is revealed that the Dimetrodon, a synapsid that closely resembles a dinosaur, is more closely related to mammals than dinosaurs. The mention of this point is important because it suggests that a comparison of superficial features between two organisms is not enough to determine whether
The article “Dimetrodon Is Not a Dinosaur: Using Tree Thinking to Understand the Ancient Relatives of Mammals and their Evolution” by Kenneth D. Angielczyk attempts to demystify the evolutionary history of mammals using evolutionary trees and succeeds in doing so. The author begins with the Dimetrodon as an example to demonstrate the power in using evolutionary trees. It is revealed that the Dimetrodon, a synapsid that closely resembles a dinosaur, is more closely related to mammals than dinosaurs. The mention of this point is important because it suggests that a comparison of superficial features between two organisms is not enough to determine whether