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This course on an introduction to biological systematics aims to teach students the fundamentals of systematics and phylogeny reconstruction. By the end of the course, learners will be able to understand taxa and relationships, grades and clades, homologies, and the systematic hierarchy. The course covers the approaches of Darwin, Linnaeus, and Simpson, and introduces students to the three schools of classification. The teaching method involves lectures and discussions on inferring relationships of common ancestry and translating cladograms into classifications. This course is designed for individuals interested in biology, evolution, and taxonomy.