phylogeny
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Since the behavioral data did not always align perfectly with the species in that phylogeny, the researchers simplified the evolutionary tree to 44 genera, along with five families and one superfamily.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2026
The team then combined these observations with data from a previously published crab phylogeny that mapped the evolutionary relationships of Brachyura using 10 genes from 344 species across most major lineages.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2026
"It describes a new genus and species, but places them in the phylogeny of tardigrades," Nelson told Salon.
From Salon • Sep. 1, 2024
The study of phylogeny aims to determine the evolutionary relationships between phyla.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The configuration of the idioplasm is a character of phylogeny and the determinants in it have by nature the tendency to develop in the order in which they were formed.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von
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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