The Origin of Taxonomic Groups Above the Species Level Requires

question 45

True/False

The origin of taxonomic groups above the species level requires mechanisms that are different from those responsible for the origin of species.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information available to estimate another parameter or the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary.

Interval Estimation

A range within which a population parameter is estimated to lie, based on sample data and a certain level of confidence.

Standard Deviation

The statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean and is calculated as the square root of the variance.

Margin of Error

A measure of the range of values below and above the sample statistic in a confidence interval.