Assertion: lamprey | /r/RelatedTo | gnathostome
Facets:
value: more closely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Løvtrup (1977) argued that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes based on a number of uniquely derived characters, including:
text: Using fossil data, paleontologists posited that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than hagfish.
text: The "vertebrate hypothesis" holds that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than they are to the hagfish.