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II. Evolutionary Relationships Between Families - Coggle Diagram
Topics and Subtopics:
- Speciation and Family Divergence
- How species evolve and diverge into different families over time.
- Adaptive radiation and the formation of new families in response to ecological changes.
- Examples: Evolution of the family Canidae from a common ancestor with other carnivores.
- Cladistics and Molecular Phylogeny
- Cladistics: Grouping organisms based on common ancestry.
- Genetic tools used to define evolutionary relationships between families.
- DNA sequencing, molecular clocks, and their application to family-level taxonomy.
- Evolutionary Tree of Life
- Shared ancestors and common traits between families.
- Phylogenetic trees and how families fit into evolutionary lineages.