CLADISTICS AND PHYLOGENY

• Phylogenetics is the scientific discipline that studies the evolutionary relationships among species, populations or individuals
• evolutionary history of a group of animas

  phylogeny
• shows the evolutionary relationships among organisms

  phylogenetic tree
• comparing related characteristics of a species to determine ancestral origins

  cladistics
• a visual representation of the classification of species based on their evolutionary relationships

  cladogram
• the study of diversity of organisms and their relationships.

  systematics
• invented by aristotle, the grouping of different organims

  taxonomy
• coined the term of domain


  karl wolves
• based the organization of organisms with similar traits

  carolus linnaeus