Taxonomic history of ants
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https://doi.org/10.30973/inventio/2020.16.38/9Keywords:
ants, taxonomy, phylogenetics, analysis, methodologyAbstract
Over the years, studies on phylogenetic relationships of ants have been made, these have been changing over time because new empirical and objective knowledge is increasing to contribute to the previous studies. The phylogenetic history of ants can be divided into two stages, pre-cladistic and cladistic. In the pre-cladistic stage, hypotheses of genealogical relationships of ants were created, but without rigorous methods, it was a subjective analysis, compared to cladistics where a method of analysis of morphological data and molecular data is noticed. In this article different information on the phylogenetic topic of ants is presented in order to give a better overview of all the studies that have been done from the middle of the last century to the present.
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