Where do “evolutionary family trees” come from? (CT Scan, Episode 78)

Where do evolutionary “family trees” come from? What assumptions go into constructing them? And why do trees based on different assumptions often tell different stories? Find out in this episode, highlighting truths to remember when you see an evolutionary tree presented as fact in a textbook.
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DIGGG DEEPER
🔹 Sanders, H. F. (2020). Phylogenetics. https://answersingenesis.org/evolution/phylogenetics/
🔹 Mitchell, E. (2015). Open Tree of Life Summarizes Evolutionary Beliefs. https://answersingenesis.org/theory-of-evolution/evolution-timeline/open-tree-life-summarizes-evolutionary-beliefs/
🔹 Doran, N. (2017). Redrawing the Dinosaur Family Tree. https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/redrawing-dinosaur-family-tree/
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CITED REFERENCES
• Kapli, P., Yang, Z., & Telford, M. J. (2020). Phylogenetic tree building in the genomic age. Nature Reviews Genetics, 1-17.
• Suárez-Díaz, E., & Anaya-Muñoz, V. H. (2008). History, objectivity, and the construction of molecular phylogenies. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 39(4), 451-468.
• Patterson, C., Williams, D. M., & Humphries, C. J. (1993). Congruence between molecular and morphological phylogenies. Annual review of ecology and systematics, 24(1), 153-188.
• Lawton, G. (2009). Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life. New Scientist, 2692, 34-39.
• Reddy, S. et al., (2017). Why do phylogenomic data sets yield conflicting trees? Data type influences the avian tree of life more than taxon sampling. Systematic Biology, 66(5), 857-879.
• Gatesy, J., & Springer, M. S. (2014). Phylogenetic analysis at deep timescales: unreliable gene trees, bypassed hidden support, and the coalescence/concatalescence conundrum. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 80, 231-266.
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