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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Phylogenetics.

  • Crown Group β€” The smallest clade containing all living representatives of a focal biological group: their most recent common ancestor and every descendant of that ancestor, living or extinct.
  • Quartet distance β€” The number or normalized fraction of four-leaf subsets on which two phylogenetic trees induce different quartet topologies.