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Cladistics is different than Linnean classification.
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Cladistics is different than Linnean classification.
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Cladistics is now accepted as the best method available for phylogenetic analysis, for it provides an explicit and testable hypothesis of organismal relationships.
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Cladistics is a particular method of hypothesizing relationships among organisms.
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Cladistics is defined as nested hirarchy of traits, this nested hirarchy takes into account the fact, that traits are inheritable and constructs a line of ancestry from the earliest ancestor with the basic set of pleisiomorphic traits inherited to todays taxa via intermediate generations with added synapomorphic traits over time.
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Cladistics is defined as nested hirarchy of traits,
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Cladistics is also distinguished by its emphasis on objective, quantitative analysis, rather than subjective decisions that some other taxonomic systems rely upon.
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"Cladistics is a way of looking at the world in terms of the pattern rather than the proces that creates the pattern."
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As someone interested in the evolutionary history of life I learned the principles, called Cladistics, evolutionary biologists and paleontologists use to get a grip on the timing, relatedness, and distribution of traits in evolutionary lineages. on important principle is the distinction between shared derived traits and shared retained archaic traits our having 5 fingers on each hand, for example, is an archaic trait inherited from the common ancestor of all land vertebrates.
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Cladistics reflects the newly found, more fundamental understanding of life based on common descent.
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