| Even comprehensive analyses have not clarified phylogenetic relationships among aardvarks, tenrecs, golden moles, and elephant shrews. |
| Only unambiguously aligned positions were considered in phylogenetic analyses. |
| Second, our work with lacertids helped make us both keenly aware of the importance of phylogeny and phylogenetic control in comparative biology. |
| In a phylogenetic dendrogram, branches and twigs here and there show saltations into a new grade. |
| Hence, we remain agnostic regarding phylogenetic relationships among basal angiosperm lineages. |
| We also determined which phylogenetic lineages had evolved faster or slower. |
