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The classification of organisms that is based exclusively on the evidence of evolutionary relationships is called _____.

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Evolutionary taxonomy or evolutionary systematics is a classification method based on evolutionary relationships between the taxa.
It has a basis in the Linnaeus classification method, but instead of morphological features, it also takes descend and the degree of evolutionary change into consideration when classifying organisms.
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