BI256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Convergent Evolution, Cladistics, Biogeography

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Lecture 3 taxonomy and phylogeny of animals jan 9th /17. Biologists organize animals in a nested hierarchy of groups within groups according to evolutionary relationships as revealed by ordered patterns in their sharing of homologous features. Darwin: theory of common descent or ancestry. Formal system of naming and classifying species. Broader science of classifying (systemization) organisms based on similarity, biogeography, etc. Systematic zoologists have three goals: discover all species of animals, reconstruct their evolutionary lineage, classify animals according to their evolutionary relationship via an informative taxonomic system. Common descent: central to nearly all modern concepts of species, smallest distinct groupings of organisms sharing patterns of ancestry and descent. Reproductive community: member of a species must form a reproductive communities that excludes members of other species, sexually reproducing populations, asexually reproducing populations. Distribution (time and space: geographical range distribution through space. Endemic: evolutionary durations distribution through time. Thomas huxley (cid:894)a co(cid:374)te(cid:373)porary of darwi(cid:374)(cid:895) asked (cid:862)what is a species? (cid:863)

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