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Defenition of the word cladistics

    • Defenition of the word cladistics

      • A philosophy of classification that arranges organisms only by their order of branching in an evolutionary tree and not by their morphological similarity.
      • a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct trees summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms
      • 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

    Hypernyms for the word cladistics

      • taxonomy

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