CLADISTICS


Meaning of CLADISTICS in English

noun plural but singular in construction Date: 1965 a system of biological taxonomy that defines taxa uniquely by shared characteristics not found in ancestral groups and uses inferred evolutionary relationships to arrange taxa in a branching hierarchy such that all members of a given taxon have the same ancestors, cladist noun cladistic adjective cladistically adverb

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