phylogenetic classification

noun

, Biology.

1. classification of organisms based on their assumed evolutionary histories and relationships.

Word History and Origins

Origin of phylogenetic classification¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

We now know that such adaptations are of comparatively small importance, and cannot be utilized for establishing groups higher than genera in a natural or phylogenetic classification.

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It is of importance to know that according to palaeontological investigation, empiric systematizing and phylogenetic classification do not always coincide, as, for instance, in the case of the ammonites.

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Upon the Gastræa theory Haeckel based a system of phylogenetic classification which was intended to replace Cuvier's and von Baer's doctrine of Types.

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