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Evolutionary tree
A reconstruction of the evolutionary relationship of contemporary species that shows their divergence from common ancestors and the branch points at which different species separated. A common ancestor is presented at the base of a central stem, and the tree ramifies as it ascends, often with distance from the base roughly related to evolutionary time. The relationships it displays are usually inferred from the similarities of amino acid sequences of contemporary proteins or of the base sequences of contemporary nucleic acids.
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