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cladistics cladistic analysis cladism cladist cladistic

A system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms WordNet 3.0

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A taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations Open English WordNet

Cladistics is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry. Wikipedia

A newer way of classifying organisms, based solely on phylogeny Wikipedia Disambiguation

Method of biological systematics in evolutionary biology Wikidata

A philosophy of classification that arranges organisms only by their order of branching in an evolutionary tree and not by their morphological similarity. OmegaWiki

An approach to biological systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon synapomorphies (shared derived characteristics) only, and not upon symplesiomorphies (shared ancestral characteristics). Wiktionary

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