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  • noun Plural form of clade.

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Examples

  • The phylogenetic arrangement of plethodontid clades is interesting.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • He points out that all of the branches or groups technically called clades known to have primitively eusocial species—aculeate wasps, halictine and xylocopine bees, sponge-nesting shrimp, termopsid termites, colonial aphids and thrips, ambrosia beetles, and naked mole rats—rely on colonies that build and occupy defensible nests.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • If we posit descent along uncrossed lines, it forms a nested hierarchy based on clades, that is, each ancestor grouped with all of its descendents.

    About 'What Darwin Got Wrong' 2010

  • If we posit descent along uncrossed lines, it forms a nested hierarchy based on clades, that is, each ancestor grouped with all of its descendents.

    About 'What Darwin Got Wrong' 2010

  • The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (described as clades Variana, the Varian disaster by Roman historians) took place in the year 9 when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius, the son of Segimer of the Cherusci, ambushed and destroyed three Roman legions led by Publius

    WN.com - Articles related to America Ferrera too busy to plan wedding 2010

  • The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (described as clades Variana, the Varian disaster by Roman historians) took place in the year 9 when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius, the son of Segimer of the Cherusci, ambushed and destroyed three Roman legions led by Publius

    WN.com - Articles related to America Ferrera too busy to plan wedding 2010

  • The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (described as clades Variana, the Varian disaster by Roman historians) took place in the year 9 when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius, the son of Segimer of the Cherusci, ambushed and destroyed three Roman legions led by Publius

    WN.com - Articles related to America Ferrera too busy to plan wedding 2010

  • The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (described as clades Variana, the Varian disaster by Roman historians) took place in the year 9 when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius, the son of Segimer of the Cherusci, ambushed and destroyed three Roman legions led by Publius

    WN.com - Articles related to America Ferrera too busy to plan wedding 2010

  • Convergent evolution: similarities among quite to very distantly related clades, which is unlikely to involve similar genetic representation (as in the lens crystallin example).

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • Convergent evolution: similarities among quite to very distantly related clades, which is unlikely to involve similar genetic representation (as in the lens crystallin example).

    ScreenTalk 2009

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