Discovery Science | Unraveling the Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny @DiscoveryScienceChannel | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
Classifying organisms is an important function of biology. But if phylogenetics is ultimately based on a floundering theory of origins, how helpful is it to our understanding of living things? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid and paleoentemologist Gunter Bechly unpack some of the major problems with arachnid phylogeny and its implications for the common descent hypothesis.

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