Imagine That You Travel to Mars and Find Two "Races

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you travel to Mars and find two "races" of Little Green Man, the Aquamarines and the Turquoises. The two groups live on different "continents," which, cleverly, you call Aquamarine and Turquoise after their inhabitants. Fortunately, these little fellows have DNA so you can carry out a DNA-based phylogenetic analysis. You find that the Aquamarines are a paraphyletic group of taxa within which the Turquoises are nested. What can you conclude about the evolution of the Aquamarines and Turquoises?

A) The Turquoises gave rise to the Aquamarines on the Turquoise continent.
B) The Turquoises gave rise to the Aquamarines on the Aquamarine continent.
C) The Aquamarines gave rise to the Turquoises on the Aquamarine continent.
D) The Aquamarines gave rise to the Turquoises on the Turquoise continent.