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phylogenetics  

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  • Phylogenetics is the study of the ancestral relatedness of groups of organisms, whether alive or extinct. History Classification of the natural world into meaningful and useful categories has been a basic human impulse, and is systematically evident at least since time of ancient Greece. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Phylogenetics]

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