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|definition=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.
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|definition=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]]
 
|see also=[[horizontal classification]]
 
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Latest revision as of 23:31, 13 September 2013

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