How we classify today

For Homework read the following pages from the Understanding Evolution site by UC Berkeley. You should already know why it is essential for a classification system to take evolutionary history into account.  These pages will teach you more about the methods used to elucidate the evolutionary relationships between various living things.

Begin here, read this page and the next two (to the bottom of the page with the orchids and the cats). You might want to turns these pages into a PDF (using Printfriendly.com) and bring into Notability to mark up your reading and save your notes.

As you read, focus on the ways that phylogenetic trees recount the history of evolution, as well as the reasons that the Linnean system is not as useful now.