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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 08 December 2014 01:52:26PM 4 points [-]

we pick the MRCA semi-arbitrarily based on criteria like "sexual compatibility of descendents".

"I know we're both humpback whales, but he's nowhere near as adventurous as I'd like him to be..."