Is there a way for pages to inherit fields from eachother?

[ryansalmond]

Is there a way to have a page inherit attributes of other pages?
i.e. if I had a page called 'vertebrates' and it had all the traits of vertebrates listed as inline fields, and then I had pages for 'mammals' and 'reptiles'– Could I have those two pages inherit the traits from vertebrates without duplicating them individually?

Currently, I have the common fields duplicated by embedding, but when querying the child pages that doesn't seem to pass the field values on to them.

[AB1908]

I've wanted something like this as well. Implementing a sort of join would take care of this as we could then go full database with foreign keys and what not but I got around this with DVJS for the moment.