phenetics

Noun

1. A form of numerical systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon the total or relative number of shared characteristics.
   • We have seen in Chapter 6 and the previous chapters that dissatisfaction with traditional taxonomy gave rise, after the Second World War, to two distinct attempts at a remedy - phenetics and cladistics. - 1992, Alec L....
   • Microbial systematics has enjoyed two major advances in the latter half of this century: the introductions of numerical phenetics and molecular techniques for direct comparisons of organismal genomes. Numerical...
   • One of the most famous and fully developed arguments along these lines, was a justification for phenetics, a school of systematic thought that proposed mathematical methods for grouping organisms based on measurements...