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A diagram showing the tentative evolutionary relationships among hominid species over the past four million years, with skull images and labeled species names connected by solid and dotted lines to indicate proposed evolutionary pathways. Diagram comparing the forelimb bone structures of a human, horse, dolphin, box turtle, fruit bat, and chicken, with color-coded bones showing homologous parts to illustrate evolutionary relationships. A branching phylogenetic tree diagram shows evolutionary relationships among various organisms, from Neurospora mold to humans, based on differences in cytochrome c gene sequences. Each branch is labeled with nucleotide substitution values and illustrated with animal or organism icons along the tree. A summary of probable lines of plant evolution. Hypothetical relationships in the animal kingdom. Diagram comparing two phylogenetic trees based on molecular changes: one tree shows evolutionary relationships among four species using myoglobin changes, and the other compares humans, rhesus monkeys, and horses using cytochrome c changes, with arrows and numbers indicating the amount of molecular change between branches.
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Good introductions to phylogeny are included in E.O. Wiley and Bruce S. Lieberman, Phylogenetics: The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics , 2nd ed. (2011); Mark Ridley, Evolution and Classification: The Reform of Cladism (1989); David L. Hull, Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science (1998); Peter L. Forey et al., Cladistics: A Practical Course in Systematics (1992; reprinted 2002); Paul H. Harvey et al. (eds.), New Uses for New Phylogenies (1996); Joseph Felsenstein, Inferring Phylogenies (2004); Richard Cowen, History of Life , 5th ed. (2013); and Andrew Purvis, John L. Gittleman, and Thomas Brooks (eds.), Phylogeny and Conservation (2005).

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Biology LibreTexts - Phylogeny and Cladistics. Oct 10, 2026
Add new Web site: PNAS - Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree of life. Jun 20, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Trees within trees: phylogeny and historical associations (PDF). Apr 02, 2025
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Phylogeny and the inference of evolutionary trajectories. Nov 27, 2024
Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Interface - Impact of phylogeny on structural contact inference from protein sequence data. Oct 16, 2024
Add new Web site: PNAS - Phylogeny and beyond: Scientific, historical, and conceptual significance of the first tree of life. Sep 04, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - Phylogeny, biogeography, and the evolution of life-history traits in Leucadendron (Proteaceae). Jul 13, 2024
Add new Web site: Princeton University - Department of Computer Science - Phylogeny. May 17, 2024
Add new Web site: Salt Lake Community College Pressbooks - College Biology II Laboratory - Phylogeny - Background. Mar 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Milne Library - Taxonomy and Phylogeny. Feb 08, 2024
Add new Web site: EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute - Phylogenetics - What is a phylogeny? Dec 20, 2023
Add new Web site: Biology LibreTexts - Phylogeny and Cladistics. Oct 27, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Minnesota Libraries - Introduction to Phylogenies. Sep 15, 2023
Add new Web site: University of California Museum of Paleontology - Introduction to Phylogeny. Sep 13, 2016
Add new Web site: Tree of Life Web Project - What is Phylogeny? Sep 13, 2016
Bibliography revised. Jun 05, 2015
Text added to clarify and provide examples relative to phenetics and cladistics. Jun 05, 2015
Changed "dessication" to "desiccation." Sep 21, 2009
New bibliography added. Apr 03, 2009
Article thoroughly revised and updated. Apr 03, 2009
Article thoroughly revised and updated. Apr 03, 2009
Added new Web site: University of California, Berkeley: Museum of Paleontology - The Phylogeny of Life. Jun 27, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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