Slide 5 of 24: "The higher the level of the taxon, the further back in time is the common ancestor of all the organisms in the taxon. Organisms that appear very similar may not share a recent common ancestor."
Slide 5 of 24 from a presentation on Modern Evolutionary Classification, showing text about taxon levels and common ancestry.
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