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Actual number of species (nt, solid line) in a clade and the number of lineages (Nt, dotted line) in a perfectly reconstructed phylogeny of the 25 species that exist at present. The clade was simulated with a speciation rate of 0.5 and an extinction rate of 0.45 over time 15.
