Branching

... of evolution by natural selection because species are not like drawers where organisms belong or not, but rather a snapshot in the dynamic ever branching and crossing branches of the tree of life.

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... writing---then the animals would have to have common ancestors . There would not have been room on the ark for all modern species i.e. epines branching to the horse family. It is believed that speciation did occur. It has been suggested that perhaps the genome contained much more dormant information ...

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... modern form. Both these assumptions are questionable. A strict application of stem- and crown-group concepts to phyla shows that although the branching points of many clades may have occurred in the Early Cambrian or before, the appearance of the modern body plans was in most cases later :

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... definition of species in the first place. There are thousands of different kinds of organisms. The bottom line is do NS and speciation, cause a branching off into a totally new type of organism, which has attributes so different than what it branched off of, it is proof of evolution. This has ...

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... to roughly 6 million years ago, which is in the range of estimates for the chromosome fusion. When detailed in a cladogram there are two branching events. First, the fusion in one parent's gamete (haploid sex cell) to produce 47 chromosome offspring with the fusion. That was next replicated ...

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