Chapter 25.3, Problem 3CC

Summary Introduction

To describe: The reason for the results of Cooper and his colleagues to be surprising with respect to geography.

Introduction: The term “cladistics” can be defined as the differentiation or classification of the species on the basis of evolutionary relationships. Construction of a phylogenetic tree can be done by applying the cladistic approach. In this approach, the characters which are shared or not shared among a number of species, based on the evolutionary change, are represented in the form of a phylogenetic tree.