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Prompt: Here are two depictions of human evolution. A very common artistic representation and a phylogenetic representation. How are the two different and how does a phylogenetic approach more accurately reflect human evolution?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_evolution.svg

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/images/evograms/hominid_evo.jpg

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A phylogenetic approach more accurately reflects human evolution as it shows the evolutionary relationship between a group of individuals and also we can track the changes in physical features that occurred among a group of individuals.However,an artistic representation does not really specify the features that the organisms evolved and does not really help in grouping organisms into taxas.

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