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Author: Douglas Futuyma, Mark Kirkpatrick
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To explain: Whether the quandaries described in the previous question even occur.

Introduction: Inheritance is the basis of evolution. Study of the evolution of descendants from common ancestors is called phylogeny. The diagrammatic representation of phylogeny of an organism is termed as a polygenetic tree.

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To determine: A group of organisms that interests an individual and find the recent phylogenetic studies of this group and see whether such problems have been encountered.

Introduction: Inheritance is the basis of evolution. Study of the evolution of descendants from common ancestors is called phylogeny. The evolutionary relationship between different organisms and the history of different groups of organisms is depicted by an evolutionary tree.

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