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| | Phylogenetics Summary |
 | | The taxonomic theory of phylogenetic systematics is organized around the principles that organisms are related through descent from a common ancestor, that there are natural groups of monophyletic taxa, and that unique changes or modifications shared by members of a taxon are evidence of their evolutionary history. |
 | | Phylogenetic relationships among taxa are examined using various kinds of data, including information on the comparative anatomy of fossil species (and of higher taxa), and the anatomy, biochemistry, behavior, and ecology of living organisms. |
 | | Phylogenetic taxonomy, which is an offshoot of, but not a logical consequence of, phylogenetic systematics, constitutes a means of classifying groups of organisms according to degree of evolutionary relatedness. |
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