Historical vs Phylogeny - What's the difference?
historical | phylogeny |
A historical romance.
* 1999 , Anne K. Kaler, Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, Romantic Conventions , page 63:
(systematics) The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
(systematics, informal) A phylogenetic diagram.
The historical development of a human social or racial group.
The historical development of any thing, idea, etc.
* 2010 , The Journey of Child Development (ISBN 0203856856):
As nouns the difference between historical and phylogeny
is that historical is a historical romance while phylogeny is (systematics) the evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.As a adjective historical
is pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.historical
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Usage notes
* * See the usage notes about (m) for more.Synonyms
* historicDerived terms
* ahistorical * art-historicalNoun
(en noun)- However, as regular romance readers know, the romance novels that appear on the best-seller lists are not Harlequins at all, but rather historicals and contemporaries, which vary widely from the Harlequin pattern in style, plot, and character.
phylogeny
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(wikipedia phylogeny)Noun
(phylogenies)- Understanding the phylogeny of this musical group helps us understand its music.
- Indeed, in a recent review article, Mithen (2009) traces the phylogeny of human communication