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Cladistics
Meaning
Noun
●
In Taxonomy:
An approach to
biological
systematics
in which
organisms
are
grouped
based upon
synapomorphies
(shared
derived
characteristics
) only, and not upon
symplesiomorphies
(shared
ancestral
characteristics
).
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Related
Taxonomy
Phylogeny
Inferential Statistics
Phylogenetic Trees
Phenotypic Plasticity
Binomial Nomenclature
Generative Grammar
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