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Chapter 21.1, Problem 3R
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The reasons that explain that the distantly related species might also have similar traits with the help of examples and the method used by the biologists to reconstruct phylogenies while considering these homoplasies.
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After the continental drift that resulted in the fragmentation of Gondwana land, most of Eurasia separated from Australia and Africa. The mass extinction events at the end of the Cretaceous period and the continental drift lead to the diversification of the species, as a result of which the analogous traits developed in the distantly related species.
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