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Definition of Cladistics
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Cladistics
1. Noun. (systematics): An approach to biological systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon synapomorphies (shared derived characteristics) only, and not upon symplesiomorphies (shared ancestral characteristics). ¹
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Definition of Cladistics
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