One of the Principle Ways to Understand the Large-Scale Effects

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One of the principle ways to understand the large-scale effects of natural selection is to compare traits across groups of species.However,there are many ways researchers can be misled by applying the comparative method without properly accounting for phylogeny-shared evolutionary history.Using the five-species tree illustrated above,list and describe or label all possible independent contrasts.

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