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Systematic is the branch of Biology that studies the diversity of life in an evolutionary context; encompasses taxonomy and is involved in reconstructing of phylogenetic history. (Phylon “tribe” genesis “origin”)

• The study of biological diversity
• It encompasses taxonomy (structured naming using binomial latine terminology)
• Classification of living organisms by evolutionary relationships

Interaction between organisms and their environment over geologic time has brought biological changes on at t extend of global proportions.

The modules deals with only animals and follows their evolutionary divergences to set up main taxonomic groups from very simple diploblastic to complex triploblatic coelomates in their whole diversity.