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What We Can and Cannot Learn fromPhylogenetic Trees• Phylogenetic trees do show patterns of descent• Phylogenetic trees do not indicate when<strong>species</strong> evolved or how much genetic changeoccurred in a lineage• It shouldn’t be assumed that a taxon evolvedfrom the taxon next to itCopyright © 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings

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