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Word: Cladistics
Speech Type: Noun
1960s: from clade+ -ist+ -ics
kləˈdɪstɪks
a method of classification of animals and plants that aims to identify and take account of only those shared characteristics which can be deduced to have originated in the common ancestor of a group of species during evolution, not those arising by convergence.
Short Definition:method of classification of animals and plants that aims to take account of only those characteristics which can be deduced to have originated in common ancestor
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