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Chapter 4: Speciation and Phylogeny

Chapter 4: Speciation and Phylogeny

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Chapter 4: Speciation and Phylogeny
Chapter objectives
What Are Species?
The Biological Species Concept
The Ecological Species Concept
The Origin of Species
Allopatric Speciation
Parapatric and Sympatric Speciation
Adaptive Radiation
The Tree of Life
Why Reconstruct Phylogenies?
How to Reconstruct Phylogenies
Problems Due to Convergence
Problems Due to Ancestral Characters
Using Genetic-Distance Data to Date Phylogenetic Events
Taxonomy: Naming Names
Key terms
Study questions