Thesaurus: cladistics
a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations
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Definitions
- n. a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations
- n 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