evogram

noun

evogram

noun

Etymology Blend of evolution + -gram.

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Biology, History, Human sciences, Natural sciences, Paleontology, Sciences An evolutionary diagram.

  • An important systematic account with illustrations of Shaw's tephigram, the emagram, Refsdal's aerogram, Schinze's thetagram, Robizach's diagram, evogram, and Rossby's diagram.1951, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts - Volume 2, page 307:
  • Teachers can facilitate such learning by incorporating cladistics and tree-thinking into the curriculum and using evograms to focus on important evolutionary transitions.2009 June 23, LS Mead, “Transforming our thinking about transitional forms”, in Evolution: Education and Outreach, volume 2, number 2, page 310:
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  • Providing the basics for tree reading suggests that the use of evograms (evolutionary diagrams integrating different lines of evidence) reflects more accurately and integratively how scientists know what they know about the major changes in evolution.2012, E Torrens, A Barahona, “Why are some evolutionary trees in natural history museums prone to being misinterpreted?”, in Evolution: Education and Outreach:
  • Remember, a cladogram or evogram is a branching, treelike diagram in which the endpoints of the branches represent specific species of organisms.2013, Stephen T. Blume, Evo-illusion, page 189:

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