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> Sexual reproduction forms trees.

No it doesn't; it forms directed acyclic graphs. (Consider the fact that all humans share a common ancestor). There are probably parts of biology where reproduction does form a tree, but given the existence of horizontal gene transfer, I am not confident in speculating what they are.



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