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microlin microlin
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12 years ago
10 pts, please help, big exam tomorrow.
This is as far as taxonomy is concerned for a zoology class.
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12 years ago
a phylogenetic tree is based off of a hypothesized species of origin, and the rleated bugs currently alive, but an evolutionary tree is based off of factual DNA similarities to trace back lineage.
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The phylogenetic species concept is proposed by Willi Hennig, who claims that a species is "the smallest set of organisms that share an ancestor and can be distinguished from other such sets."  That means 2 populations on opposite sides of a river can be potentially classified as different "phylogenetic species" if the two populations differ by as little as a single allele.

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/VA2OtherSpeciesConcept.shtml

"An evolutionary species is a single lineage of ancestor-descendant populations which maintains its identity from other such lineages and which has its own evolutionary tendencies and historical fate."

http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/2900_Species.htm

The evolutionary species concept does not attempt to place a size restriction on any species, unlike the phylogenetic species concept.  The esc also agrees with the biological species concept that interbreeding populations are to be considered the same species.  The difficulty with the esc is that there is no way to delimit the species in the time dimension.  Exactly when a species begins or and ends in time are unknown.
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