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Noun: cladistics  klu'dis-tiks
  1. 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
    - cladistic analysis

Type of: taxonomy

Encyclopedia: Cladistics

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