https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.14914
Pattern of historical relationships between species or other groups resulting from divergence during evolution.
Notes:
- Phylogenetic relationships are shown in diagrams (cladograms, phylogenetic trees, evolutionary trees).
- Palaeontology is important for understanding phylogeny. Without the fossils of the many groups of organisms now extinct, it could not be understood how present life forms are interrelated.
- Phylogenetics, the science of phylogeny, is part of the larger field of systematics, also including taxonomy.
See: cladogram, phylogenetics