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Chapter 23, Problem 7U

In a paraphyletic group

a. all species are more closely related to each other than they are to a species outside the group.

b. evolutionary reversal is common.

c. polyphyly also usually occurs.

d. some species are more closely related to species outside the group than they are to some species within the group.

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