The Oxford English Dictionary provides the following two related definitions of the word phylogeny: 1. The pattern of historical relationships between species or other groups resulting from divergence during evolution. 2. A diagram or theoretical model of the sequence of evolutionary divergence of species or other groups of organisms from their common ancestors.
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(2008). Introduction. In: Probability and Real Trees. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1920. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74798-7_1
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