evolutionary tree
Descent branching chart
An evolutionary tree is a diagram showing how species or groups of organisms are related through common ancestors.
Branches represent lineages diverging over time, with the trunk at the earliest ancestor and tips at present-day or extinct species.
Also called a phylogenetic tree.
The evolutionary tree places humans and chimpanzees on neighboring branches.
- phylogenyEvolutionary relationships among organisms
- branchesLimbs of trees
- DarwinBritish naturalist, species theorist
- origin of speciesText establishing evolutionary theory
- ancestryFamily line of descent
shared ancestry · lineage · species · divergence · cladogram · roots · trunk · fossil · missing link · living fossil · deep time · common ancestor · mutations · descent · genetic drift · gene pool · adaptation · survival of the fittest
- evolutionnatural selection, mutation, adaptation, speciation, fitness
- macroevolutionmacroevolution, speciation, extinction, fossil record, common descent
- hereditygenes, DNA, gene, chromosomes, genetics
- human evolutionhominid, hominids, hominins, hominin, early humans
- taxonomygenus, species, taxon, kingdom, phylum
- creation debatecreationism, intelligent design, creation science, divine creation, special creation
evolutionary treespecial creation
Deity-formed life doctrine
creationism · intelligent design · divine creation · creation myth · spontaneous generation
evolution, evolutionary, evolve, evolved, evolving, evolvement, evolvable, tree, treeing