Systematics - Definition and Overview

For other uses, see Systematics (disambiguation).

Systematics is the study of the diversity of organism characteristics. In biology, systematists are the scientists who classify species and other taxa, which they do with the aim of defining how they relate evolutionarily.

See also

• taxonomy
• phylogeny
• scientific classification
• molecular systematics
• cladistics

External links

• Tree of Life (http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html)