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• The Evolutionary Tree was adapted by Janet Haresnape from a figure from: What is a Mammal? in The New Encyclopedia of Mammals, edited by David MacDonald which forms part of the S182 course ‘Studying Mammals’, and the Graphic version of this was created by Martin Scott and Linda Hurst.
• Haresnape J. M. Darwin and evolution: a set of activities based on the evolution of mammals, School Science Review 91 (337), 2010, 75-86. Published by the Association for Science Education (ASE).
• DNA Sequences: from Gatesy, J., Hayashi, C., Cronin., M.A. and Arctander, P. (1996) Evidence from milk casein genes that cetaceans are close relatives of hippopotamid actiodactyls. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 13, 954-963.

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