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Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Primates

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Molecular Biology and Evolution of Blood Group and MHC Antigens in Primates

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Taxonomy is defined by Ernst Mayr (1969) as “The theory and practice of classifying organisms”; as a shorthand, it is used (“a taxonomy”) for an actual classification itself. Phylogeny was defined by Haeckel, who coined the term, as “the entire science of the changes in form through which the phyla or organic lineages pass through the entire time of their discrete existence”. As in the case of the term “taxonomy”, we commonly use “a phylogeny” to mean a given group’s own evolutionary history.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Immunogénétique moléculaire, Université Paul Sabatier, CHU de Toulouse Hôpital Purpan, Place du Docteur Baylac, 31059, Toulouse cedex, France

    Antoine Blancher MD, PhD

  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie Abteilung Immungenetik, Correnstr. 42, 72076, Tübingen, Germany

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  3. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Fl, 33101, USA

    Jan Klein PhD

  4. Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP), New York University Medical Center, 10 Townsend Avenue, Upper Grandview, NY, 10960-4830, USA

    Wladyslaw Socha MD

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Groves, C.P. (1997). Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Primates. In: Blancher, A., Klein, J., Socha, W. (eds) Molecular Biology and Evolution of Blood Group and MHC Antigens in Primates. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59086-3_1

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