Ascii phylogenetic tree

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PHYLOGENY

Ascii phylogeny tree | Common ancestor | Evolutionary systematics | Evolutionary tree | Mikko's Phylogeny Archive | Most Recent Common Ancestor | PhyloCode | Phylogeography | Phylogenetic tree | Phylogenetics | Recapitulation theory | Supertree | Tree diagram | Tree of Life | Tree of Life Web Project

As here defined, an Ascii phylogeny, or more correctly an Ascii Phylogenetic Tree, is a dendrogram or tree diagram which uses ASCII-text format to draw supertrees.

Ascii Phylogenetic Trees are usually refered to as Ascii Cladograms, but that is inaccurate because cladograms are not actually phylogenies but branching diagrams depicting patterns of shared similarities (O'Keefe & Sander 1999)

The Ascii Phylogenetic Tree format was created by T. Mike Keesey, who used them to show dinosaur phylogentic relationships in the old Dinosauricon. Mikko Haaramo adopted this format, but refined it with the introduction of the grave ( ` ) for the corners, for his own phylogenetic archive. This useful format was then adopted on the Dinosaur Mailing List and by paleo enthusiast webmasters like Jack Conrad (The Vertebrate Phylogeny Pages), Justin S. Tweet (Thescelosaurus!), DinosØMP (The Dinosauria), and M.Alan Kazlev and Toby White (Kheper palaeo and Vertebrate Notes, and finally Palaeos com). The format is now standard in any text-based Palaeo diagram.

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