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Phylogeny vs Classification - What's the difference?

phylogeny | classification |

As nouns the difference between phylogeny and classification

is that phylogeny is (systematics) the evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades while classification is the act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc, according to some common relations or attributes.

phylogeny

Noun

(phylogenies)
  • (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.
  • Understanding the phylogeny of this musical group helps us understand its music.
  • The historical development of any thing, idea, etc.
  • * 2010 , The Journey of Child Development (ISBN 0203856856):
  • Indeed, in a recent review article, Mithen (2009) traces the phylogeny of human communication

    Synonyms

    * phylogenesis

    Derived terms

    * ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny

    See also

    * ontogeny

    classification

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1937-1952 , author=Jorge Luis Borges , title=Other Inquisitions citation , passage=On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a verfy fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.}}
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
  • I’m using mathesis' — a universal science of '''measurement''' and '''order''' …
    And there is also '''taxinomia''' a principle of ''''''classification'''''' and ordered '''tabulation'''.
    Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
    Western reason had entered the '
    age of judgement
    .

    Derived terms

    * classification scheme