phylogeny
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Phylogeny is important to everyday life in human society.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Phylogeny is the science that describes the relative connections between organisms, in terms of ancestral and descendant species.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Phylogeny of iguanian lizards inferred from 29 nuclear loci, and a comparison of concatenated and species-tree approaches for an ancient, rapid radiation.
From Scientific American • Jan. 17, 2014
Figure 1: Phylogeny and constrained elements from the 29 eutherian mammalian genome sequences. a, A phylogenetic tree of all 29 mammals used in this analysis based on the substitution rates in the MultiZ alignments.
From Nature • Oct. 26, 2011
V. In Professor Haeckel's speculations on Phylogeny, or the genealogy of animal forms, there is much that is profoundly interesting, and his suggestions are always supported by sound knowledge and great ingenuity.
From Critiques and Addresses by Huxley, Thomas Henry
Vocabulary lists containing phylogeny
Evolutionary Biology - High School
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Evolutionary Biology - Middle School
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Evolutionary BIology - Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity - High School
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