Difference between revisions of "vertical classification"
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|label=vertical classification | |label=vertical classification | ||
| − | |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. | + | |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
