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 trees and cladogram can represent traits, such as the number of heart chambers in animals, which are derived or lost due to evolution.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
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 relationships of ray-finned fishes depicted here are based on the current study and ref.
From Nature • Dec. 13, 2016
Gadow, “Remarks on the Numbers and on the Phylogenetic Development of the Remiges of Birds,” Proc.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
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