cladistics

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EE says nothing about the methods of cladistics, the approach within biological systematics that organizes taxa by shared characters: "A description of cladistic methods," he writes, "doesn't appear at all in

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  1. noun A system of classification based on the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of groups of organisms.

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  • While his father was away speaking at a scientific conference on divine cladistics, Paul began constructing his laboratory from plans he'd drawn during the last day of school. —  Asimov'sSF,September2007
  • Most paleontologists now subscribe with varying degrees of dogmatism to cladistics, a recent system for organizing living things by their significant shared characteristics without regard to when the animals evolved. —  Omni: May 1993
  • Moreover, this ideally and potentially unified theory of biological ontology coordinates and integrates a plurality of mathematical biological theories (e.g., self-organization / structure, cladistics / history, and evolutionary genetics / function). —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • As Gordon's skepticism about cladistics indicates, behind the public proclamations that molecules confirm morphology, which Timmer recites, is an extensive scientific debate about the dangers of circularity in systematic methods. —  Evolution News & Views
  • That's a question students need to be able to answer, weighing the evidence pro and con, before they take up the merits of cladistics (which assumes the truth of monophyly as a first principle). —  Evolution News & Views
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