Phylogeny and Incongruent Trees

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@T_aquaticus

It doesn’t make sense at all. You don’t need similar genetics in order to get similar morphology. Also, there are many, many genes that have nothing to do with morphology and yet those gene sequences are similar as well.

@Faizal_Ali

So fish and whales should be more genetically similar than whales and other mammals.

we already had this discussion:

Design and Nested Hierarchies

we see it everywhere in designed objects made by human (both cars and trucks have engine, wheels etc) so i see no difference. indeed. but we know that even synonymous codons have different functional meaning. thus they are not different from non synonymous codons: