Evolutionary Analysis (5th Edition)

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Chapter 4 - Estimating Evolutionary Trees - Questions - Page 141: 1

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According to the phylogenetic tree depicted in the given figure, rodents are more closely related to primates than they are to shrews and moles. Rodents are closely related to primates because they share a more recent common ancestor than the one shared between rodents and shrews and moles.
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