Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or designating a system of classification of organisms based on analysis of a large number of quantifiable character traits, without consideration of evolutionary relationships.
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- adjective systematics : Of, or relating to,
phenetics .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If the ‘community of similarity’ were equal to the ‘community of descent’, then phenetic clustering would produce the same nested hierarchy.
A New Book 2010
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The key metric, “baraminic distance” basically seems to be a phenetic clustering method, where groupings are done by eye and outgroups are excluded if they make the ingroups seem too similar.
Creationist vs. creationist on Homo habilis - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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The key metric, “baraminic distance” basically seems to be a phenetic clustering method, where groupings are done by eye and outgroups are excluded if they make the ingroups seem too similar.
Creationist vs. creationist on Homo habilis - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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It is a member of the Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus phenetic group.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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As a proud phenetic speller of the English language, I think “discreet” works just fine!
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Mass lexical, oopsie, multilateral comparison is a nice tool for generating hypotheses, but incapable of testing them, because it's phenetic.
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Different choices of unit characters or different computation schemes will yield different phenetic clusters consistent with diverse phylogenetic sequences.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART A. KAUFFMAN 1968
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Richards CM (2007) Distinguishing terminal monophyletic groups from reticulate taxa: performance of phenetic, tree-based, and network procedures.
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It seems bizarre that Wood’s baraminic/phenetic approach would classify Au. sediba in Homo, and Au. africanus in another genus.
Creationist vs. creationist on Homo habilis - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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However, Wood neglects to point out that afarensis doesn’t form a phenetic, remember cluster with the apes or other australopithecines, either.
Creationist vs. creationist on Homo habilis - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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