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Omar Sultan Haque
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. He contributed several articles to SAGE Publications’ Encyclopedia of Global Health (2008), which served as the basis for his contributions to Britannica.

Primary Contributions (3)
Phylogenetics, in biology, the study of the ancestral relatedness of groups of organisms, whether alive or extinct. Classification of the natural world into meaningful and useful categories has long been a basic human impulse and is systematically evident at least since time of ancient Greece.…
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Publications (1)
Encyclopedia of Global Health (4 Vol. Set )
Encyclopedia of Global Health (4 Vol. Set ) (January 2008)
"A general reference for topics related to health worlwide, this encyclopedia is ambitious in its scope, with entries for specific diseases and conditions, geographical areas, health issues, biographical information, and organizations related to world health policy."―CHOICE"A useful, one-stop reference for health professionals and the general population alike that speaks to important changes and issues in global health; a foundation of knowledge essential for any library."―Library...
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