cladistics

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun cladistics has 1 sense

cladistics(n = noun.cognition) cladistic analysis - 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;

is a kind of taxonomy

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

cladistics, n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) Biol. a method of classification of animals and plants on the basis of shared characteristics, which are assumed to indicate common ancestry.

Derivative

cladism n.

Etymology

as CLADE + -IST + -ICS