A revolution in the study of human evolution is under way thanks ...

Question

A revolution in the study of human evolution is under way thanks to the invention of techniques that enable DNA sequencing of not only modern humans, but also ancient humans.

Before the application of DNA sequencing to fossils, which species concept was most useful for distinguishing human fossils? What is one disadvantage of this approach?

Accepted Answer

Hello, everyone here. We have a question asking us what is the logic for using the concept of morphology and species classification? The morphological species concept is based on the idea that organisms with similar characteristics share the same ancestors and are related but distantly related to other species that do not have the same features. So our answer here is a organisms that share similar morphology is share the same ancestors as those without similar morphology. Ease. Thank you for watching. Bye.

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