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To explain: The way in which individually advantageous feature causes greater species diversity.

Introduction: A feature that turns advantageous to an individual organism causes a greater number of species in certain clades. For example, wings have been advantageous to cause the great diversity of winged insects compared to a few species of primitively wingless insects.

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To explain: The method for testing the hypothesis that a certain feature can cause a great diversity of certain groups of organisms.

Introduction: A hypothesis is an assumption based on some known fact but yet to prove it. Biological diversity is the variation among organisms which indicates species richness.

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If the phylogenetic species concept (PSC) were used  to define species, rather than the biological species concept (BSC), how might that change the estimates of species diversity (numbers of species) on a worldwide basis? True or False: Estimates of species diversity are likely to change if the PSC is used. In particular, one would expect the number of species to increase. This is because individuals from divergent allopatric populations that can potentially interbreed would belong to the same species under the BSC. These same organisms would be classified as members of different species under the PSC.
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