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What does a phylogeny depicting a recent adaptive radiation tend to look like? A long ancestral branch followed by lots

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 1:22 pm
by answerhappygod
What does a phylogeny depicting a recent adaptiveradiation tend to look like?
A long ancestral branch followed by lots ofdiversification at the tips
Phylogenies can't show this because they do not depictextinct taxas
Randomly interspersed branching events