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University of Bristol

Fig 2

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Phylogeny of amniotes, showing known reproduction mode and eggshell mineralization, and EER of 80 modern and extinct species, and the estimated ancestral states for all branching points. The dominant inferred state at the origin of amniotes is viviparity with EER. Source:

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Image from Jiang et al. (2023), with silhouettes of animals from PhyloPic.org, illustrated by Chloé Schmidt, Emily Willoughby, Mark Witton, Dmitry Bogdanov, Nobu Tamura, T. and Michael Keesey. Credit: M.J. Benton, University of Bristol

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