Phylogeny

Here are some sites to help you further your knowledge of phylogenetic trees and the mechanisms for creating and interpreting them.

1. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale university: a tutorial on how to read and interpret trees and ties them into evolution concepts. it includes key examples of organisms to help you.

2. Evolution 101-trees of life: (excerpt from webpage)

The central ideas of evolution are that life has a history—it has changed over time—and that different species share common ancestors.

Here, you can explore how evolutionary change and evolutionary relationships are represented in “family trees,” how these trees are constructed, and how this knowledge affects biological classification.

3. NOVA Evolution "change": click on "all in the family" and work your way through the interactive. this is practice for creating a phylogenetic tree based on shared "derived" characters