phylogenetically

[fahy-loh-juh-ne-tik-lee]

adverb

1. with respect to phylogeny.

Example Sentences

"We have bacterial strains that are so phylogenetically close that we thought of them as the same thing, but now we see an enormous difference between their relative abundance in tumors versus the oral cavity."

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A 2016 article in the paper Frontiers in Neuroscience found that pinniped vocalizations are phylogenetically much closer to humans than to birds, and that they are indeed more vocally flexible than primates.

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“But this species provides another example of extreme adaptation, showing that animals—even ones that are phylogenetically related—can evolve in totally different directions.”

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They span 15 phyla, ranging from microscopic, barely multicellular blobs to 130-foot-long tapeworms snuggly coiled inside whale guts—species as phylogenetically different from one another as humans are from insects and jellyfish.

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Indeed, the great problem with Ichthyosaurus is that forefin diversity is so great, so baffling, that extracting convincing phylogenetically and taxonomically meaningful signals from among its hundreds of known specimens is difficult.

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