phylogenetic
Americanadjective
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The next stage involved a phylogenetic analysis in which kissing was coded as a trait and placed onto the primate family tree.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2025
It was particularly surprising that more than half of the plots had a higher level of functional than phylogenetic diversity.
From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024
By integrating phylogenetic data and comparative analyses, the research team discovered that nectaries originated concurrently in ferns and angiosperms, but ferns experienced a significant lag in diversification compared to their flowering plant counterparts.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2024
Even sophisticated methods of tracing family trees, or phylogenetic analysis, can be misled by a single “rogue” piece of DNA, he notes.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 31, 2024
A phylogenetic plant system does not exist in fact, but only in figure.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von
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