phenetics

It can be distinguished from other taxonomic systems, such as phenetics, by its focus on evolutionary relationships; while other systems usually use morphological similarities to group similar species into genera,

A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

It can be distinguished from other taxonomic systems, such as phenetics, by its focus on evolutionary relationships; while other systems usually use morphological similarities to group similar species into genera, families and other higher level classification, cladistics tries to construct a tree representing the ancestry of organisms and species.

A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

Sure, it's pure phenetics, and of course the methodology and assumptions have been widely criticised, but their discoveries cannot simply be disregarded.

Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006

After all, it's DNA-DNA hybridisation -- pure, absolute phenetics.

Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006

Except when it's not (neighbour-joining, or the extinct UPGMA); then it's phenetics (= a mere measure of similarity in %, without even trying to tell retained from derived features).

Happy Christmas, from gigantic Spanish sauropods... or, alas, poor ‘Angloposeidon’ Darren Naish 2006

Could the discussion of kinds in Genesis and Leviticus actually be an early attempt at producing the first taxomic field guide based on phenetics.

Match the Kinds - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Though I was once told that if I didn’t include two successive outgroups in an analysis, I was just doing phenetics.

Creationist vs. creationist on Homo habilis - The Panda's Thumb 2010