Systematic biology is also known as 'systematics'. The [Society of Systematic Biologists](http://systbiol.org/) defines it like this: : Systematics is the study of biological diversity and its origins. It focuses on understanding evolutionary relationships among organisms, species, higher taxa, or other biological entities, such as genes, and the evolution of the properties of taxa including intrinsic traits, ecological interactions, and geographic distributions. An important part of systematics is the development of methods for various aspects of phylogenetic inference and biological nomenclature/classification. ### References ### [Systematics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematics), Wikipedia category:area of research [[!redirects systematic biology]] [[!redirects Systematics]] [[!redirects systematics]]