Phylogenetics  

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In biology, phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relatedness among various groups of organisms (for example, species or populations), which is discovered through molecular sequencing data and morphological data matrices. The term phylogenetics is of Greek origin from the terms phyle/phylon (φυλή/φῦλον), meaning "tribe, race," and genetikos (γενετικός), meaning "relative to birth" from genesis (γένεσις, "birth"). Taxonomy, the classification, identification, and naming of organisms, has been richly informed by phylogenetics but remains methodologically and logically distinct.

See also

• Bauplan
• Bioinformatics
• Biomathematics
• Cladistics
• Coalescent theory
• Computational phylogenetics
• EDGE of Existence Programme
• Important publications in phylogenetics
• Language family
• Maximum parsimony
• Molecular phylogeny
• PhyloCode
• Joe Felsenstein
• Systematics
• Phylogenetic tree
• Phylogenetic network
• Phylogenetic nomenclature
• Phylogenetics software
• Phylogenetic tree viewers
• Phylogeography
• Phylodynamics
• Phylogenetic comparative methods
• Microbial phylogenetics