phylogeny.

The evolutionary history and relationships of organisms or groups.

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Words that belong together

• reconstruct a phylogeny
• molecular phylogeny

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The molecular phylogeny placed the new sample far from the visually similar species.

They revised the phylogeny when a broader set of sequences became available.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular phylogeny; plural phylogenies. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.