How to pronounce“branchings”in English

There are branchings and then divergence.

So the branchings occurred earlier, before what's known as the Cambrian Explosion.

And so we have a series of branchings giving rise to, at the top, various different present day kinds of organisms-- vertebrates there on the left;

that that uh these you can have branchings and you can have mergings

in in in effect reaching out and then contracting its dendritic branchings.

number of mergings is equal to the number of branchings yeah so in other words every time there's a branch eventually there will also be a merge

And the next thing to note is that many of the deep branchings in animal evolution took place in the Ediacaran Period.

What the orange band there represents is the fact that the deep historical branchings giving rise to the various present day groups,

we're very fortunate that carbon has this ability to make uh backbones and elaborate branchings and things so you

And in some groups, especially animals, the thing sort of evolves into a more definite tree where you have two-way branchings