What, if anything, are whales

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What, if anything, are whales?
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others
Mysticeti
Cetacea
Odontoceti
others
Tylopoda
Suiformes
Ancodonta
Suina
Tragulidae
Artiodactyla
Pecora
Ruminantia
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others
Ballen whales
Whales
Toothed whales
others
Camels
Pig-like
Hippopotamuses
Pigs
Mouse deer
Even-toed ungulates
Pecorans
Ruminants
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Because I said so! (1945)
George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984)
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Balaenoptera musculus Blue whale
Baleen whales
Mysticeti
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Physeter macrocephalus Sperm whale
Phocoena phocoena Harbor porpoise
Orcinus orca Killer whale
Odontoceti
Toothed whales
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Odontoceti

Mysticeti
Cetacea
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Tragulus napu Larger Malay Mouse Deer
Tragulus javanicus Lesser Malay Mouse Deer
Tragulidae
Chevrotains
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Antilocapra americana Pronghorn
Giraffa camelopardalis Giraffe
Oreamnos americanus Mountain goat
Pecora
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Tragulidae
Pecora
Ruminantia
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Pecari tajacu Collared peccary
Sus barbatus Bearded pig
Suina
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Hippopotamus amphibius Hippopotamus
Ancodonta
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Ancodonta
Suina
Suiformes
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Camelus bactrianus Bactrian camel
Lama glama Llama
Tylopoda
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Suiformes


Tylopoda
Ruminantia
Artiodactyla
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Outgroup Eutherian
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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Molecular revision of cetacean and
artiodactyl phylogeny
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Graur D, Higgins DG. 1994. Molecular evidence for
the inclusion of cetaceans within the order
Artiodactyla. Mol. Biol. Evol. 11 357-364.
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