Phenetics, popular in the mid-20th century but now largely obsolete, uses distance matrix-based methods to construct trees based on overall similarity, which is often assumed to approximate phylogenetic relationships.

: Phenetics should not be confused with phonetics, the study of speech sounds, despite the similarity in pronunciation.

Phenetics has largely been superseded by cladistics for research into evolutionary relationships among species.

Phenetics provides numerical tools for examining overall patterns of variation, allowing researchers to identify discrete groups that can be classified as species.

He did not try to run.

It was widely admired, but most historians did not try to replicate it and instead focused on their specialized monographs.

The Annales historians did not try to replicate Braudel's vast geographical scope in La Méditerranée.

Spotswood arranged for a party of soldiers and sailors to try to capture the pirate, which they did on 22 November 1718.

A person who had been branded with a nota censoria, might, if he considered himself wronged, endeavour to prove his innocence to the censors, and if he did not succeed, he might try to gain the protection of one of the censors, that he might intercede on his behalf.

Temple did not try to germinate any seeds from control fruits not fed to turkeys so the effect of feeding fruits to turkeys was unclear.

After many months of negotiations with the Sudanese to try to end the incursions, the Government of Eritrea concluded that the NIF did not intend to change its policy and broke relations.

At the time of discovery, Ørsted did not suggest any satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon, nor did he try to represent the phenomenon in a mathematical framework.

They did try to open a school at their home, but were unable to attract students to the remote area.

Kurt Russell did an incredible job, and it would be fun to see someone else try.

This was a highly controversial idea, as many Boston area sports fans consider Fenway Park to be sacred ground, and demolishing the old park would have caused a significant outcry ( as did the closure and later demolition of Tiger Stadium that same year after decades of grassroots efforts to try to save it ).

Certain governments did try and crack down on magicians and fortune tellers, particularly that of France, where the police viewed them as a social pest who took money from the gullible, often in a search for treasure.

Baden did not even try.

Most of the engagements from these times did not try to take the opponent's life unless both agreed, but in most duels, it is known that Musashi did not care which weapon his foe used — such was his mastery.

But, although he persuaded some sporting bodies not to compete, Fraser did not try to the prevent the Australian Olympic Committee sending a team to the Moscow games.

The other two groups did the same thing, except they also learned interference pairs right before being retested to try to disrupt the previously learned word pairs.

To the surprise of some, the Redskins did not try an onside kick, but instead kicked deep.

People who have designed something only once before, try to do all the things they " did not get to do last time ," loading the project up with all the things they put off while making version one, even if most of them should be put off in version two as well.

Some forces wanted to try him for high treason ( left: " What some men wished " – " Dr. Bělský for high treason "), but he got a full confidence from the Council of Prague ( right: " but what they did not expect " – " address of confidence from the city of Prague ").

Paramount, and its eventual parent Viacom, did not try to forget about the possibility.

They did this to try to keep the location of the Space Center a secret.

He did not try to transmit further because he wanted to prove electromagnetic theory, not to develop wireless communications.

Merovingian hagiography did not set out to reconstruct a biography in the Roman or the modern sense, but to attract and hold popular devotion by the formulas of elaborate literary exercises, through which the Frankish Church channeled popular piety within orthodox channels, defined the nature of sanctity and retained some control over the posthumous cults that developed spontaneously at burial sites, where the life-force of the saint lingered, to do good for the votary.

Darwin did not expect to be able to reconstruct evolutionary history, but continuing discoveries gave him well founded hope that new finds would occasionally reveal transitional forms.

It has been suggested that Garner was moved aside because he did not agree with the White House about who should decide how to reconstruct Iraq.

Arthur Wightman showed that the vacuum expectation value distributions, satisfying certain set of properties which follow from the axioms, are sufficient to reconstruct the field theory — Wightman reconstruction theorem, including the existence of a vacuum state ; he did not find the condition on the vacuum expectation values guaranteeing the uniqueness of the vacuum ; this condition, the cluster property, was found later by Res Jost, Klaus Hepp, David Ruelle and Othmar Steinmann.

Since KeyKOS did not run on popular commodity processors in any case, the decision was made to reconstruct it from the publicly available documentation.

The North Borneo Chartered Company did not have the financial resources to reconstruct North Borneo after the destruction of World War II.

MacRobert summarizes the state of scholarship: “ Even if further early copies of the texts attributed to Kirill of Turov come to light, it may well not be possible to reconstruct his kanon in the form in which he wrote it — supposing that he did write it — or to determine the original wording of his prayers.

In 1956, maintenance of Okęcie was transferred from LOT Polish Airlines to state administration, then later in 1959, on the government's initiative, a decision was made to reconstruct the airport's man terminal, this however, did not actually take place until 1964.

Old and new settlers did a great effort to raise the Szczecin from ruins, rebuild, reconstruct and extend the city's industry, residential areas but also the cultural heritage ( e. g. the Pomeranian Dukes ' Castle in Szczecin ), and it was still harder to do this under the communist regime.

After the Second World War, the Catholic, Protestant, Christian, social-democratic and liberal parties decided to work together to reconstruct the Netherlands after the ravages of war, as did their unions and employers ' organisations.

Tinkler, as its leading official for most of this period, was not a prominent public figure, though he did help reconstruct some semblance of a provincial network for the party.

When a guest ( s ) or someone they talk to on the phone has written a book, Tim Lovejoy used announce, " I can't read very well, and neither can Helen or any of the crew, but Neil's a good reader, so we had him reconstruct the best bits ", which Neil duly did, often exaggerating for comic effect.

The history of Rome would be difficult to reconstruct if we did not have the availability of consular lists.

Crayford cannot believe this, but the real Doctor tells him that his rocket was actually hijacked by the Kraal, and they did not reconstruct but merely brainwashed him.

After this Jeffrey did not remember what he had seen, but it is easy to reconstruct the events.