Meaning of whippo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any member of the suborder Whippomorpha, including whales and hippopotamuses.
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2. A hypothetical common ancestor between whales and hippopotamuses.
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Examples

“I hasten to point out that the molecular data sets supporting the "whippo" clade are frought with problems, many of which are currently being addressed by several high-caliber systematists, and so we may not have heard the last word on this issue.”

“The whippo lineage may have developed a watery lifestyle even before the hippos and whale branches diverged.”

“Molecular analyses also support a closer relationship of ‘whippos’ to ruminants than to pigs or camels (Fig. 2.9), a clade named Cetruminantia (e.g., Hassanin et al. 2012).”

“As an example of this confusion, transitional forms are not to be sought between equally derived living whales and their closest living relatives, the hippos. We do not search for "whippos."”

“The "whippo" is a problem for evolutionists on at least two counts: hippos are plant eaters, not meat eaters; all cetaceans are carnivores[.]”

“The school stood where once roamed the Hell Pig, an extinct entelodont with ancestral affinities to "whippos"—the common ancestors of whales and hippos.”

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