What is the Conceptual Inheritance Tree in Biology?

[JoKuffour]

Hello,

Does anyone know the name of this biological theory, it would help me out very much as I really need to know but I can't find any information about it, thanks very much for any help.

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/6521/4b1zz.jpg"

 

[PIT2]

Evolution theory?
Common descent?

 

[JoKuffour]

Thanks for the help so far guys but I am not 100% sure on anything yet.

If this helps I think, I think this man proposed the idea.

http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=4a3rb.jpg"

Thanks

 

[Phobos]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould"
His famous theory is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium" , which pertains to the theory of evolution with respect to the rate of speciation.

I don't know how your first link applies to all this other than it suggesting evolution in general.

 

[JoKuffour]

Ah, thanks very much for the help, as soon as I saw the name Stephen Jay Gould I remembered thanks so much.

 

[Moonbear]

The original image would just demonstrate systematics as a way of representing species relatedness, i.e., an evolutionary "tree."

 

[selfAdjoint]

The diagram shows just a conceptual inheritance tree, with succession of species (or other levels) going upward on the vertical axis and morphology (that is to say features of individual species) spread out horizontally. By itself it doesn't represent a theory; it's just a schematic for representing things.