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 shown, list and describe or label all possible independent contrasts.

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