Interpreting Evolutionary Trees
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Content: Evolutionary Trees Evolutionary tree diagrams are branching diagrams (dendrograms) that depict the phylogenetic relationships between taxa based on shared derived characters (synapomorphies) that reflect common ancestry. Phylogenies depict an historical pattern of divergence and descent as series of branches; these branches merge at points representing common ancestry, which in turn are connected with more distant ancestors.
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