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  • noun Plural form of phylogeny.

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Examples

  • -- Among pinnipeds, sealions belonging to Arctocephalus and Zalophus often hybridise, but they are well apart in phylogenies, and have traditionally even been grouped in separate subfamilies.

    The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas Darren Naish 2006

  • I noticed that no ID supporter has bothered to correct your misunderstanding of phylogenies.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • It is precisely the HGT that spoils the tree-like phylogenies, hence the controversy.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • I noticed that no ID supporter has bothered to correct your misunderstanding of phylogenies.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • IOW Zachriel you have failed to show that I have a misunderstanding of phylogenies.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • Were an organism an evolutionary chimera, then its various chronometers [phylogenetic markers] would yield different, conflicting phylogenies.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • Do orthologous gene phylogenies really support treethinking?

    Cornelius Hunter accuses Behe of Circular Reasoning 2010

  • Indeed, in his seminal 1987 review Bacterial Evolution, Carl Woese (34) stressed the incompatibility of ribosomal RNA phylogenies with even those few higher taxa that microbiologists still believed in and noted that “not only did we know very little about eubacterial phylogeny before the advent of the rRNA approach, but what we thought we knew tended to be wrong.”

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • Do orthologous gene phylogenies really support treethinking?

    Behe, Common Descent, & UD 2009

  • His understanding of phylogenies and nested hierarchies is completely muddled.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

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