phylogenetically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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"This phenomenon is now being described for the first time in detail for phylogenetically closely related animal species," he continues.
From Science Daily
"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."
From Science Daily
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.
From Salon
“But this species provides another example of extreme adaptation, showing that animals—even ones that are phylogenetically related—can evolve in totally different directions.”
From Scientific American
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.
From Scientific American
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