In what ways do the processes of reconstructing phylogenetic trees and mapping evolutionary events onto trees generate hypotheses?

What will be an ideal response?


ANS:
Will vary, but could include: a phylogenetic tree is a hypothesis about evolutionary relationships; the order and location of evolutionary events on a tree is a hypothesis of the ways that evolution has unfolded; these hypotheses can be tested when new evidence is discovered.

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