Evolutionary trees and texts

Scholars studying the transmission of texts have traditionally modelled different versions of texts as an evolutionary tree.

Read this brief background on the surviving versions of the Gettysburg Address.

Think about how you are comparing features to interpret differences in languages as evidence for an evolutionary tree. What features would you compare to reconstruct an evolutionary tree for the different versions of the Gettysburg Address?

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