Using Trees for Classification" (Understanding Evolution / Phylogenetic Systematics)

University of California Museum of Paleontology. Using Trees for Classification" (Understanding Evolution / Phylogenetic Systematics).

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https://evolution.berkeley.edu/phylogenetic-systematics/using-trees-for-classification/

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• Data Structure
  • Logistics and supply chain. Warehouse layouts, SKU taxonomies, and bin organizations privilege some pick-and-pack operations over others, and a high-velocity item in a hard-to-reach bin is a data-structure mismatch. Interfaces, legal codes, and taxonomies. Menu hierarchies and endpoint trees impose a structure on the user; statutory titles and sections are a data structure over the body of law that is periodically recodified; biological and chemical classifications privilege some reasoning operations and disadvantage others, and a shift such as Linnaean-to-phylogenetic taxonomy is a data-structure migration.

    This sourceExplains the migration from rank-based Linnaean classification to clade-based phylogenetic classification as a re-arrangement that privileges evolutionary-history reasoning operations the rank-based scheme penalizes.

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