evolutionary lineage
evolutionary lineage Line of descent of a taxon from its ancestral taxon. A lineage ultimately extends back through the various taxonomic levels, from the species to the genus, from the genus to the family, from the family to the order, etc. See also CLASSIFICATION.
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