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phylogeneticist

American  
[fahy-loh-juh-ne-tis-ist] / ˌfaɪ loʊ dʒəˈnɛ tɪs ɪst /

noun

  1. a person who studies phylogenetics.


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“These are some of the most incredible and overlooked animals on Planet Earth,” said phylogeneticist Rikki Gumbs from Imperial College London and The Zoological Society of London in a statement.

From Fox News

“It’s important that we harness human technological advancements to do a better job understanding and protecting the natural world,” Jennifer Jackson, molecular phylogeneticist at the British Antarctic Survey, told Earther.

From Fox News

Even though the researchers carefully curated the plant extinction database, the study’s numbers are almost certainly an underestimate of the problem, says Jurriaan de Vos, a phylogeneticist at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

From Nature

Mowgli Holmes, Phylos’s chief science officer, was a student of Rob DeSalle, a phylogeneticist at the museum.

From New York Times

“I don't give it any serious consideration,” says Mark Springer, a molecular phylogeneticist at the University of California, Riverside, who last year published the most comprehensive genomic data set so far in support of the traditional mammalian tree.

From Nature