It is essential to identify changes in populations of organisms over time and locate the lineages according to their contemporary repre sentatives, facilitating learning consistent with current biological knowl edge. Therefore, in this work we carry out a qualitative analysis on the Systematic and Phylogenetic content in five books recommended by the Programa Nacional do Livro para o Ensino Médio (National Book Program for High School). And it was found that amongst the books reviewed, none uses the phylogeny as an axis integrator of education. It is believed that the phylogeny as axis integrator allows a comparative approach of life by facilitating studies in zoology and botany and providing subsidies for the understanding of biological diversity targeted towards an evolutionary approach.
biology teaching; phylogeny; textbook