The evidence supporting the idea that modern birds and reptiles share a common ancestor is that feathers are a derived characteristic that first evolved in reptiles. Feathers represent an evolutionary derived trait.
In evolutionary biology, an autapomorphy is a distinctive phenotypic trait referred to as a derived trait, which is unique to a particular group/taxon.
The derived traits are phenotypic features that arise during the evolution of a particular taxonomic group.
These traits (derived traits) differ from the phenotypic trait of the ancestor of the group.
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Knysna Lourie is naturally found in mature evergreen forests of southern and eastern South Africa, and Swaziland. Although it can vary, and answer of a possible biome can be the Savannahs found in south Africa.
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My hypothesis is that the Hawaiian Island chain was formed by a hot spot in the middle of the Pacific Plate. While the hot spot itself is fixed, the plate is moving. My data supports my hypothesis because as the plate moved over the hot spot, the islands that make up the Hawaiian Island chain were formed.
