Using the Evidence Presented in the Three Figures Above,describe How

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Using the evidence presented in the three figures above,describe how combining phylogeographic evidence-including geological processes such as continental drift,natural history (including distribution and dispersal of species),and phylogenies-worked to develop a hypothesis supporting the common ancestry of ratite birds.(Hint: Ratite birds are flightless,and tinamous can fly only weakly.)

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