Systematics

• Title

  Systematics

• Definition

  The study of diversification of life on earth, both past and present, and the relationships of living things through time, i.e., their evolutionary relationships. Some authors equate systematics and taxonomy where others distinguish the two by limiting systematics to the study of evolutionary relationships and taxonomy to the discovery and description of taxa.

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