| Study and Review Hint for question 6 Review section 14.2, The Phylogeny of Whales. It's very important to understand that no single type of data is "best" for phylogeny inference. Selecting the appropriate characters (whether they're morphological, behavioral, developmental, molecular, etc.) requires that the investigator have a good understanding of natural and evolutionary history of the group in question as well as of the strenghts and weaknesses of different kinds of characters available. Definitely not a trivial task! |