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Branches that mean relatedness, not time.
Also known as: Evolutionary tree diagram, Phylogeny diagram
The diagrammatic convention showing evolutionary relationships as a branching tree.
Shows the inferred evolutionary relationships among a set of taxa as a branching diagram.
Contexts: History, Laboratory
The order of tips along the page carries no information: a tree can be rotated at any node without changing what it asserts, which is why reading 'more advanced' from left-to-right position is a misreading of the diagram.
Contexts: History, Laboratory
Branch length means something in some trees and nothing in others, and the figure must say which — a tree without a scale bar is not making a quantitative claim.
Contexts: History, Laboratory
A branching figure of lines meeting at nodes, with tips labelled by taxon and branch lengths either proportional to change or drawn without meaning.