BTW, all life according to Darwin started with a one-celled animal and progressed to fish to reptiles and then to mammals so my statement although not perfect is accurate.
Sorry. you are correct. I posted without checking first. I went on my assumption that they were a different branch of the evolutionary beginnings of different species.
I found this out on another forum when I asked if that was a correct rebuttal.
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They told me this:
synapsids are a branch of reptiles, technically. many mammal-like reptiles existed in the late Permian and Early Triassic.
of course, one should stay away from statements like, "reptiles turned into mammals" as this is not an accurate description of the process. reptiles branched off into anapsids, diapsids, archosaurs and synapsids. synapsids branched off into pelycosaurs and therapsids. cynodonts, a group of therapsids, are believed to be the ancestors of modern mammals.