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And depending on your view of mammalian evolution, the first taxon to develop diurnality was either the most common recent ancestor of all apes and monkeys or the most common recent ancestor of all… elephant shrews.
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The rules for naming a new animal taxon are governed by the ICZN, while the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) governs plants.
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Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa.
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Origin and Etymology of taxon
New Latin, from International Scientific Vocabulary taxonomy
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First Known Use: 1929
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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