Chapter9: Management Of Injuries And Acute Illness
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Birds and mammals are both endothermic, i.e. they maintain their body temperature internally through their
According to this phylogenetic tree, turtles must also be endotherms
This is false; birds are ectotherms.
Endothermy is a synapomorphy for birds and mammals, so the tree must be wrong.
Endothermy evolved independently in mammals, and again in birds, making it convergent.
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