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tetrapod
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tetrapod [′te·trə‚päd]
(vertebrate zoology)
A four-footed animal.
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It seems obvious that if we spent more time in our textbooks talking about how tetrapods came up on land, how birds evolved from dinosaurs, how whales went back into the oceans, the average American would not be so vulnerable to the claims of creationists.
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If there is one take-home message, it is that the evolutionary relationship between these early tetrapods is not well resolved," Callier declares.
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