phylogenetic
Americanadjective
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Phylogenetic diversity shows how closely related the species in a given environment are to each other.
From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024
Phylogenetic studies indicate that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals last shared a common ancestor, Homo heidelbergensis, about six hundred and fifty thousand years ago, so our species won’t turn out to be older than that.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 7, 2017
Phylogenetic mapping demonstrates that this particular virus arrived in Brazil from French Polynesia in 2013.
From Time • May 10, 2016
Phylogenetic trees were annotated using the ete3 Python package.
From Nature • Feb. 2, 2016
Law of Phylogenetic Combination.—The simplest of all plants are cells of round form, which grow and reproduce themselves by division, budding or free cell formation.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von
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