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Overview: Investigating the Tree of Life• Phylogeny is the evolutionary history of a<strong>species</strong> or group of related <strong>species</strong>• The discipline of systematics classifiesorganisms and determines their evolutionaryrelationships• Systematists use fossil, molecular, and geneticdata to infer evolutionary relationshipsCopyright © 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings

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