phylogenetics

English
WOTD – 9 March 2006

Etymology

phylogenetic +‎ -ics.

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  • IPA(key): /ˌfaɪləd͡ʒəˈnɛtɪks/
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Noun

phylogenetics (uncountable)

  1. (biology, systematics) The study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms, through computational methods that focus on observed heritable traits.
    • c. 1899, George Baur’s Life and Writings, “The American Naturalist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 33, page 16:
      Thereupon he went to Leipzig, and during the winter of 1880–81 and the following summer semester studied comparative anatomy with Leuckart, geology with Credner, and phylogenetics with Carus.
    • 2005, Stephen Bryant, Gerard Bouffard, Bioinformatics, Wiley, page 366,
      An especially concise introduction to molecular phylogenetics is provided by Hillis et al. (1993).
      The danger of generating incorrect results is inherently greater in computational phylogenetics than in many other fields of science.
    • 2011, Emmanuel Paradis, Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution with R, Springer, page vii,
      A difficult task was to review the development of the many new packages contributing to phylogenetics and evolutionary biology.

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