Phylogeny - Help me see what you see

It’s not that you can make a tree. You could make a tree for all kinds of things that didn’t evolve.

It’s that no matter what data you use, whether morphological or genetic, whether based on coding DNA or non-coding DNA or RNA or ERVs, whether you look at skeletal features or internal organs or proteins, you always end up with essentially the same tree.

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