Phylogenetic Trees

PRESENT
DAY
SPECIES

SHARED
COMMON
ANCESTORS

OLDEST
COMMON ANCESTOR
ANCESTOR SPECIES
So how would we arrange the bears that we read about
earlier on a phylogenetic tree?
Remember!
More similar species will share a more
recent common ancestor.
Less similar species will have diverged
much earlier (and therefore have a much
more distant common ancestor with the other
species).
D A B E C
PRESENT
DAY
SPECIES

ANCESTOR
SPECIES