Difference between revisions of "vertical classification"
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vertical classification: Classification focusing on common descent, tending to unite ancestral and descendant groups of a phyletic line into a single higher taxon, thereby separating them from contemporaneous taxa having reached a similar grade of evolutionary change.See also: horizontal classification